Violence at Work (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gill, Martin; Bowie, Vaughan; Fisher, Bonnie S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this book a distinguished international team, composed of both academics and practitioners, identify and address the key issues of workplace violence. Overall this book provides a foundation on which to base ways of better explaining, predicting, understanding and preventing workplace violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134035359
• Artikelnr.: 41008470

Autorenporträt

Martin Gill is Professor or Criminology at the University of Leicester. Bonnie S. Fisher is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Vaughan Bowie is Lecturer in Human Services at the University of Western Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Defining Violence at Work 2. Occupational violence in
industrialised countries: types, incidence patterns, and 'at risk' groups
of workers 3. Causal factors of violence in the workplace: a human resource
professional's perspective 4. Developing a framework for understanding
patterns of abuse and violence against businesses 5. The process of
employee violence: the building of a workplace explosion 6. Workplace
violence in the United States: are there gender differences? 7. Prevention
of violence affecting workers: a systems perspective 8. Standards for
violence management training 9. Why workplace bullying and violence are
different: protecting employees from both 10. Dealing with violence in the
workplace: the experience of Canadian unions 11. The Assaulted Staff Action
Program (ASAP): ten-year analysis of empirical findings 12. Violence at
work: supporting the employee Concluding thoughts