Workplace Violence

Herausgeber: Bowie, Vaughan; Cooper, Cary; Fisher, Bonnie S

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reaching beyond the current emphasis on equipping 'primary responders' - such as police, paramedics - to react to violent incidence in the workplace, this book also addresses the experiences of 'secondary responders' - including managers, human resources staff, unions, humanitarian aid workers - and their training and support needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781843921349
• ISBN-10: 1843921340
• Artikelnr.: 24997731

Autorenporträt

Vaughan Bowie, Bonnie S. Fisher, Cary Cooper

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Workplace violence: new issues, trends, and strategies
Part 1: National and International Trends and Responses to Workplace
Violence 2. A cross-national comparison of workplace violence and response
strategies 3. Organizational factors and psychological aggression: results
from a national survey of US companies 4. Reforming abusive organisations
Part 2: Identifying and responding to at risk groups 5. Staff violence
against those in their care 6. Domestic violence and the workplace: do we
know too much of nothing? 7. Caring for those who care - aid worker safety
and security as a source of stress and distress: a case for psychological
support? 8. Not off the hook: relationships between aid organisation
culture and climate and the experience of workers in volatile environments
Part 3: Terrorism - a new type of workplace violence 9. Organizational
violence: a trigger for reactive terrorism 10. Preparing, training, and
supporting human service workers to respond to terrorist events 11.
Workplace preparedness and resiliency: an integrated response to terrorism
Part 4: Bullys at work 12. Workplace bullying: individual pathology or
organisational culture 13. Cyber-harassment in the workplace 14. Where to
from here? countering workplace violence in the new millennium