Section 1: Summary of the Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace Report.
A well written and researched CRISP report, “Summary of the Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace,” offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the main causes of workplace mass homicide. In the most articulate and forceful voice, the report presents profiles of workplace mass homicide (WMH) that has occurred in America since the year 1986 to 2011. The report critically analyses the negative consequences that accrue to the immediate areas, organization and the entire community. The Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace report further offers a critical insight on how several stakeholders such as high-rank security personnel’s, senior executives and human resource managers are directly concerned with these risks . The report also strives to provide various strategies such as risk factors, common triggers, and trends associated with (WMH). This comprehensive report is subdivided into two broad sections. The first section is referred as problems of workplace mass homicide while the second is referred as the dimensions of WMH by employees.
Section II: critique of the Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace Report.
In the first section, the report continues to address its main audiences. These audiences are personnel managers and security professionals from both the public and private sectors across the globe . It mainly focuses on this devastating carnage by providing a coherent picture with the view of producing realistic and palliative measures on how to cure the challenge. According to the report Mass Homicide can be classified in terms of the number of victims involved, time of the incident and the place of the incident . The report defines WMH as a killing with a death toll of more than three victims within a period of 24 hours at the same zone or different zones by the same offender. In terms of time, mass murder must occur at a specified time of the day in a given place. Pree murder occurs within 30 days while serial killings occur repeatedly over a period of time. Geographically, mass murder does not necessarily occur in one place but may be decentralized to other zones.
Drawing on psychological analysis and supplementary homicide reports, the paper provides abroad analytic framework on the various groups, causes and operation of the mass homicide killings in an organization. The report identified the main key offenders of the mass homicide murders as male (80-95%) of average age (30-38). The critical analysis of case studies presented in the paper showed the various causes homicide killings . The authors note that these people when subjected to personal crisis such as long term frustrations, stress and depression are likely to experience the carnage. In the report analysis, the authors unanimously agree with predecessors that majority of the killers usually carries out their exercise using firearms. In most cases, the mass murders plan the exercise and use the most powerful automatic machines to ambush their enemies and inflict a maximum damage .
The second part of the report analyses the various dimensions of WMH by employees. Government documentary records analyzed by the report indicate that the rate of violent crime against employees has reduced by 51% in 1993 to 2009. Shooting recorded the highest form of WMH followed by robbers and other assailants at about 70%. In the workplace, the male victims carrying out the mass homicide was still averagely high as compared to their female counterparts . The report indicated that the number of incidences and victims of workplace mass homicide occur at an average of two incidences per year in America. Among the American states with two or more average WMH incidents, Carolina leads, followed by Florida, Missouri and Texas respectively. The main perpetrators of the violence compost of 70% whites as the Asian, black and Hispanic counts for the remaining 30% .
The report further identified that there is a direct relationship between an employee occupational characteristics to the workplace violence. The report continues to provide an incisive analysis by starting that almost three-quarter of the offenders are blue collar employees. The white collar jobs only occupied a third of total offenders in the workplace . Taking a micro approach, the report identifies that the interpersonal relationship plays a vital role in increasing or reducing the incidences in the workplace. The authors carefully noticed that 65% of the WMH are mainly lone rangers in the workplace. As a result of one reason or the other, these victims may have been singled out neglected and stigmatized thus having coping problems in the organization. This interpersonal relationship requires monitoring to avoid such incidences .
The report identified that most to the WMH incidences occurred mostly before and after the official working hours of 8am and 4pm. The cross analysis from case studies and previous homicide studies conceded on the same time-frame. This timely framed report indicates that the offenders committed the offences with the canal knowledge of their prey zones. The report revealed that most of the WMH occurred in the factories, government offices, business building and sometimes the incidents are extended to the specific co-worker residential buildings. Based on the available evidence, the report stated that most of the perpetrators were triggered by anger and revenge .
The report has also revealed that new trends are emerging in WMH by employees. The report acknowledges that, formally the crimes mainly involve the male enemies but today women and close acquitters such as family members have been involved. Traditionally, most of these crimes were carried out by the blue collar workers unlike today where white collar workers are involved. As reported, in the year 2008-2010, four cases were recorded where all perpetrators were white collar workers. These people included a nursing supervisor, an army psychiatrist and a university professor. Further, the killing trend has further been bonded to politics, religion and social-economic matters .
Section III: Conclusion and recommendations
The report provides a firm analysis on the Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace. However, the paper still has several flaws as it does not validate several crucial issues to be considered. The paper has failed to address the various long-term established myths on MHW. In a contrast, the report provides that time value is approximately a year unlike the previous researchers that indicate that almost a half of the homicides occur within 24hours after the dispute . These findings on the relationship between the offender and the drug abuse within the report and other case studies are quite contradicting. The findings on this report also failed in providing sufficient information on how motivation of the offenders may also trigger these killings. Apart from the antisocial behaviour, the paper has failed to indicate that even a sociable employee may undertake the extra-judicial killings especially when teased or ostracized .
It should be the incentive of the management and workers to objectively work towards mitigating the occurrence of the incident and the risks associated with Mass Homicide by employees in the American Workplace. Transparency, sensitivity and objectivity may be used as crucial weapons to mitigate the probability of such incidence occurrence. Further, the organization security department and Human resource managers need to coordinate and consider both long and short term security measures that have been addressed in the report.
Work Cited
Lee, Seungmug (Zech) and Robert McCrie. "Mass Homicides by Employees in the American Workplace." Western Illinois University, 2012. Pp. 3-24
