Workplace aggression

Hostile and aggressive behavior in the work environment can be dangerous if not handled correctly. Workplace aggression can be defined in several ways and actions. This can range to behaviors towards individuals, verbal actions, physical actions against property and personnel. Hostile actions tend to start from extreme stress or a difficult situation whether in or out of the work environment. The term “seeing red” has come into play several times in these incidents. Its effects if ignored can extend of two different types of aggression scales. There is the extreme scale with results in serious outburst of aggression that can physically be damaging to everyone around while the other is verbal and lesser forms of aggression. In these scenarios,…

daily lives. Aggression is one of the many feelings that we experience. As children, we learn from our feelings and how to cope with sadness, being scared, excitement, happiness, and anger. According to the article EASY GUIDE TO HUMAN FEELINGS (2010), “Intruding into another person's space brings forth anger”. We take anger and turn it into aggression as adults and use this to bully or presume authority over others, especially for healthcare workers. A review of literature revealed different…

Methodology The research on the topic of workplace violence and aggression needs to cover diverse topics; like workplace location, environment, type of job, emotional and physical health of targets and the preventive measures (if any) taken by the managers to reduce aggression. Do to this diversity, survey based method will be used so that the data can be analyzed to see that how many employees are the victims of workplace violence and what are the very common factors among all the targets.…

Incivility is everywhere. It is commonly visible in everyday conversations, in debates, and online. With online incivility, anonymity is often targeted as the reason why there is online incivility. Both online incivility and anonymity encompass arguments that are for and against keeping them or banning them. Those who advocate for anonymity, such as Cornell Clayton, believe that anonymity provides a voice for the minority group against the majority majority and to protect individuals’ privacy.…

fat! You are so ugly! These quotes are the typical phrases that school age bullies might use to insult their prey. Unfortunately, bullying has traveled from the school yard to the work place. Bullying is defined as repeated verbal and physical actions that are used to intentionally humiliate and intimidate others. According to the Psychological Harassment Information Association, workplace bullying has become associated with terms such psychological abuse, psychological harassment,…

Review of Related Literature Workplace Violence covers a wide extent of conduct. Workplace violence is any incident in which an employee is abused, threatened or assaulted by fellow employees or by a public member arising out in different circumstances in line with his or her course of employment. Workplace violence is viewed as one of the most serious forms of misconduct in the workplace. This is because of the disadvantageous impact it can have on workplace relationships and environment in…

“Behaviors that often accompany lateral violence continue to be a current problem in the literature for over 20 years” (Embree, 2010). As described in literature, “the origin of LV refers to a phenomenon known as relational aggression which can be defined as any behavior that is anticipated to hurt an individual by damaging or manipulating relationships with other individuals” (Simmons, 2003). Actions related to relational aggression are most often driven to overtly isolate the targeted…

fifty-eight percent of workplace aggressors are females and they usually prey on other females a majority of the time (Crothers et al., 2009, p. 101-102). Women have a fear of being rejected by their colleagues so they go out of their way to avoid disagreements or conflicts resulting in surface relationships where they cannot be their genuine selves (Crothers et al., 2009, p. 104). The actors of aggression can be classified into three categories: queen bees, middle bees, and victims. A queen bee…

The definition of workplace bullying according to the Workplace Bullying Institute (2017) is “repeated mistreatment of an employee by one or more employees. The conduct from these perpetrators is abusive, threatening, humiliating, intimidating, sometimes considered work sabotage, and/or verbal abuse” (p.1). When we think of bullying almost always we think of “school yard” bullies in our earlier childhood days where the weakest children were picked on and tormented. Bullying in the workplace…

Workplace violence is a real concern that is receiving national attention. Media attention recently raised consciousness of shootings in the workplace that have adverse effects from the violence. There are statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics stating that there are an estimated 1.7 million workers that are injured at work. Not only does violence affect the nurse but it also effects the employer, and patients also. In health care, nurses and the patient care assistants…