Violence at work : what everyone should know

Every day we wake up, send our children to school, go to work, attend sports or other entertainment events, etc. Then suddenly the unexpected happens. This day will not end like yesterday and a thousand other days. Our lives are changed forever. Suddenly we realize how precious and fragile life is,...

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Main Authors Van Fleet, Ella W. (Author), Van Fleet, David D. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014]
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612598
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-687-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 317 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Section I. Manager behavior and violence
  • Chapter 1. Manager behavior: How it can contribute to violence
  • Chapter 2. Bad manager behavior: What managers can do
  • Chapter 3. Bad manager behavior: What nonmanagers can do. Appendage i. anecdotes of bad manager behavior
  • Section II. Nonmanager behavior and violence
  • Chapter 4. Bad nonmanager behavior: How it can contribute to violence
  • Chapter 5. Bad nonmanager behavior: What managers can do
  • Chapter 6. Bad nonmanager behavior: What nonmanagers can do. Appendage ii: Anecdotes of bad nonmanager behavior
  • Section III. Jobs/workplaces and violence
  • Chapter 7. Bad job/workplace factors that may lead to violence
  • Chapter 8. Bad jobs/workplaces: What managers can do
  • Chapter 9. Bad jobs/workplaces: What nonmanagers can do. Appendage iii: Anecdotal descriptions of bad jobs/workplaces
  • Section IV. Now what?
  • Chapter 10. What do we know
  • Chapter 11. Option 4: Moving on. Exercises
  • Appendix: Psychopathy indicators
  • Bibliography
  • About the authors.