Essays on Workplace Violence

On November 5, 2009, the son of Palestinian immigrants, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan randomly fired into a crowd at a processing center at Fort Hood, the largest active-duty military post in the country (Army Major kills, n.d.). One would be hard pressed to find a larger military stage to conduct such blatant murder. Despite the Major shouting ‘God is great’ in Arabic, “Allahu Akbar”, just before he opened fire on soldiers who were either returning from deployment, or getting ready to be deployed, there was a denial by the government to officially label the shooting as an act ...

Violent conduct within the workplace environment can be manifested in four different ways. In the first place, total strangers to the organization may intend to bring harm to employees within the organization. Secondly, customers or clients of the organization can also be a threat to the security of the organization. Thirdly, the violence may be exhibited from the very employees of the institution. Finally, all organizations face a threat of violence from outside persons who have a direct connection with one of its members or its workers and this threat could be in relation to a totally private dispute ...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety are associated with the safety, health, and welfare of employees who are engaged in work. It plays an important role in managing the company’s operations. The report addresses workplace hazards and provides information about the accidents and injuries occurred in the engineering industry. One of the main aims of the report is to indicate ways of mitigating the risk of loss. The purpose of this technical report is to demonstrate that the author has engineering knowledge, professional competence, and technical ability to carry out the essential research in detail about the health and safety ...

Introduction

The human resource management department in every organization plays an imperative role in ensuring the health and safety of every employee because they are a prerequisite of a safe and conducive work environment. Workplace security is viewed from two dimensions, namely the exposure to workplace violence as well as the physical factors that can cause harm to the staff. The organizational management should ensure compliance with the standard safety and health measures to avoid legal consequences as described by the government legislation. This paper seeks to establish security and health measures that the management at Beer store should adopt ...

The key points supposed to be communicated in the email are the purpose of the conference, a summary of the report from the meeting, and how the information obtained can be applied to the organization. The grammatical mistakes in the email can make it hard for the email recipient to understand or identify the key points of the report. Besides, lack of a clear organization or formatting of the email complicates the clear understanding. A corrected version of the email should be as shown in the following pages:

Hello Mitchell,

I believe everything is going on well with you. I would ...

Introduction

This paper discusses the problem of workplace violence. Since workplace violence is one of the managerial issues that have been brought to the upfront in the recent times, it’s necessary to discuss it at a detailed level to prevent future cases of workplace violence that may result in either an instance of death or even monetary losses to the organizations where it happens. Workplace violence entails any form or threat of harassment, intimidation, physical abuse or any other such disorderly conduct that takes place in a work environment. Moreover, it becomes difficult for most of the managers at ...

Discrimination at workplace

Abstract A number of citizens have fallen victims of discriminatory practices at their work places. The effects of discrimination in the workplace may be so severe, some causing serious traumas and emotional problems. Discrimination at work place occurs when an employer takes an adverse action against an employee or even a prospective employee due to protected attribute. Such discrimination leads to inequality and unfairness in the workplace where some employees are denied basic rights compared to others. This paper presents a proposal on how to end discrimination at work place. The paper argues that ending discrimination in the workplace ...

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Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behaviour that occurs at the work site. It ranges from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and even homicide (Occupational Safety & Health Administration, 2002). Developing a violence prevention program by an organization is extremely important to maintain a healthy atmosphere at the workplace and ensure both physical and psychological safety for the employees. An organization can take several prevention measures before the violence actually happens. Firstly, the prevention and reparation policy against violence at the workplace should be developed. Every employee should ...

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1. What questions should her SPHR friend ask Betty Smith? In the beginning, the SPHR friend will ask Betty to calm down and ask her the problems that are faced by the organization. The SPHR friend will ask Betty to explain the situations that are described by the CEO. The SPHR friend will then ask Betty about her knowledge of the Second Amendment Law and what she knows about workplace violence. It is important for an HR executive to understand the problems faced by the organization regards to its workplace and understand the concerned issues of workplace violence. Along ...