Workplace Violence In The Workplace Case Study

According to the Department of Labor in the United Sates (n.d.), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) stated that workplace violence is any acts or threats that are physical violence, harassment, intimidation or any other threatening disruptive behaviors that happened in the working place. Workplace violence can be ranged from threat and verbal abuse to physical coercion, assault and even homicide, influencing and including employees, customers and visitors. For instant, a study in Ghana on the implication of workplace violence on causing the nurses' intent to emigrate from year 2013 to year 2014 has been carried out. From the result of the study, it showed that higher percentages of nurses who have experienced violence are more likely than who were not involved in such incidents to have intention to emigrate (Boafo, 2016). Thus, this condition has led to lacking of nurse working in the local hospitals, especially in the low and middle income countries.

For example, some of the caregivers may professionally responsible on “do not harm” the patients and therefore putting their own safety and health at risk to help the patients and even some of the caregivers would considered violence as “part of the job”. The reason is they have recognized that the injuries caused by the patients are unintentional and therefore they accepted them as routine or unavoidable. Hence, different industry involved different view on the workplace violence, some may refuse to work due to the violence but some may accept the violence as “part of their job” (“Workplace violence in healthcare”,