...What is the Work Violence? * Assaults and other violent acts or threats that occur in or are related to the workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals or damage to company resources or capabilities. Workplace violence may involve employees, clients and vendors of the affected organization as well as those who do not have a relationship with the organization but who may know the intended victims. Work Violence target is the person toward whom the threat of violence is directed. * Every year, nearly half of US workers report having faced aggression from coworkers, customers, or supervisors. And according to OSH, roughly 20,000 assaults and 792 homicides occurred at workplaces throughout the US in 2005. Such violence prompted the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to label workplace violence a “national epidemic”. * According to the Society of Human Resource Management Workplace, Almost two-thirds of HR professionals stated there had been some sort of violence at their organization within a three year time span. The breakdown of workplace violence incidents is as follows: 54% - Inappropriate language 13% - Verbal abuse 7% - Verbal threats of violence 6% - Sexual harassment 5% - Burglary 4% - Pushing/Shoving 3% - Fistfight 3% - Threatening emails 2% - Stalking 1% - Robbery (holdup) 1% - Bomb threat Causes of Work Violence; * Some employers have not yet fully addressed the issue of workplace...
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...Domestic Violence: Factors Impacting Domestic Violence Outline I. Introduction Somewhere around the world at this very moment, an individual is being abused they will be left with bruises, cuts and scars. The scars are not always physical, but often ones of mental torture that will last a lifetime. Their abuser is not a stranger, but rather their husband, boyfriend, wife, girlfriend, mother or father. At the heart of a situation of domestic abuse is one person, most often a woman, who is paying a heavy personal, social, economic, and emotional cost. She may have children – or not. She may be married – or not. She may be young or old, rich or poor, a member of any class of society. For any individual who is in an abusive relationship, seeking to leave it, or trying to find the strength to rebuild their life after doing so, there is a necessity not only for practical support to enable them to access appropriate services, but also for emotional support to build up shattered confidence and self-esteem. a. Definition A form of behavior that is used to obtain control and power over an individual is known as Domestic violence. The perpetrator uses emotional and physical attacks, intimidation, and fear to gain control over their victim. Domestic violence affects individuals in a broad range of different backgrounds such as economic, racial, social, ethnic, and religious groups. There is no discrimination...
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...6.) Discuss intervention and the various steps necessary in preventing and responding to workplace violence. Workplace violence is a major concern to managers and employees as the nature of the severity demonstrates a high potential for the stated results to end in physical injury or death. The work environment needs to be free from any violent occurrences to prevent and resolve security incidents involving threats and episodes of violence. A strong commitment from management, supervisors and employees is warranted to enhance workplace safety, and to reduce and prevent disruption and violence. Violence emerges from behaviors that are disruptive, threatening or simply violent in nature. A disruptive/verbal behavior prevents or interferes with the normal work functions or activities whereas a threatening behavior includes physical actions short of actual contact or injury usually oral or written to people or property. The violent or physical behavior exhibits actions where a physical assault, with or without weapons, is interpreted as being potentially violent (i.e. throwing things, pounding a desk or door, or destroying property) or when specific threats inflict physical harm (e.g. a threat to shoot someone by name). All these behaviors motivate business owners to take precautions and proactive measure to protect employees and coworkers of violent crime before it erupts. Several steps can be taken by businesses to address workplace violence. First...
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...In this paper will cover what is family violence as well as the long term effect that these actions have on a family. We will also cover what the triggers that can cause violence. We will also cover the indicators that are associated with when assessing a child and their family unit. I will also identify the implications of abuse and neglect within the human culture. The first question we must ask to find our answers is what is family violence. According to the department of human services family violence what is viewed as any violent, coercive, controlling behavior that can be found threatening. The violence does not have to be physical it can also be mental or sexual in nature. These behaviors can cause a person to live in fear for their own safety. A person who is abused will show signs of social isolation as well feeling like damaged property. Many individuals will have issues with their self-esteem. There is no age limit, culture, or economic class that is excluded from family violence. There are many challenges for screening for child abuse as well as neglect. Many of the individuals will feel shame. The victim will also not like to talk about what has happened to them this is true on both adults and children. The individual will feel as if the abuse or neglect was self-induced. During the screening process the environment must be nonthreatening. There are currently two types of screening the first is direct trauma questions the other is standardized screenings. With...
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...Case study No.1 Workplace violence Problem definition Workplace violence occurs in a work setting which is an act of aggression, physical assault, or threatening behavior that causes physical or emotional harm and endangers the health or safety of the customers, coworkers, or managers. Justification of the Problem There are many causes of Workplace violence including economic, societal, psychological, and organizations issues. The economic causes are an over-stressed population, re-organizing departments, growth of technology, recession, and unemployment. Many people have the opinion that the societal causes of workplace violence are many; a changing society, violence on television and in the movies, music. Physiological causes of workplace violence may also be the result of employees who have experienced emotional, physical, or sexual abuse from childhood. The role that organizations play in workplace violence includes; organizational structure, the lack of a forum to address grievances, threats of violence, creativity and new ideas being discouraged. Empowered employees and a voice in the decision-making process are lacking. Many workers may look at violence as being part of their job; a risk they are expected to endure. Cases of verbal abuse are often seen as not worth reporting, particularly when the employer is not supportive of the worker’s claim. For these reasons, the actual statistical extent of violence is not really known. List of Alternatives 1...
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...1 Case Study Analysis (Domestic Violence) Jason Rulon ENG/215 2 Case Study Analysis (Domestic Violence) Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. This is especially true when the abuse is psychological, rather than physical. Noticing and acknowledging the signs of an abusive relationship is the first step to ending it. No one should live in fear of the person they love. If you recognize yourself or someone you know in the following warning signs and descriptions of abuse, reach out. There is help available. In the United States, Domestic Violence is the leading cause of injury to women ranging from the ages of 15 and 44, more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined. Statistics say that one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. More than three to four million women in the United States are beaten in their homes each year by their husbands, ex-husbands, or male lovers. The questions rendering in people’s minds is that, why would anyone do such a thing. Is it worth destroying the relationship in the household by causing physical harm, sexual assault, or fear of physical harm? This problem has been going on for...
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...Kerstin Duncan NRS-433V Introduction to Nursing Research July 7, 2012 Professor Maria Baptiste Violence in the Emergency Department Reference: Gates, D., M., Gillespie, G., L., & Succop, P. (2011). Violence against nurses and its impact on stress and productivity. Nursing Economic$, 29(2), 59-67. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2010999034&site=ehost-live&scope=site Abstract: XXX The purpose of this study was to examine how violence from patients and visitors is related to emergency department (ED) nurses' work productivity and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). XXX Researchers have found ED nurses experience a high prevalence of physical assaults from patients and visitors. Yet, there is little research which examines the effect violent events have on nurses' productivity, particularly their ability to provide safe and compassionate patient care. XXX A cross-sectional design was used to gather data from ED nurses who are members of the Emergency Nurses Association in the United States. Participants were asked to complete the Impact of Events Scale-Revised and Healthcare Productivity Survey in relation to a stressful violent event. XXX Ninety-four percent of nurses experienced at least one posttraumatic stress disorder symptom after a violent event, with 17% having scores high enough to...
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...Week Eight Assignment: Community and Problem-Solving Policing Community and Problem-Solving Policing Shawn Morris Axia College There are three main topics of policing that we have among us today which are Community policing, problem-solving policing and federal government’s integration into community policing that all work together as one to keep our streets safe and secure. In recent years, the philosophy of community-oriented policing has gained a significant position in American law enforcement procedures (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999). This process has come to be known as the problem-solving process of policing. These problem-solving strategies focus on crime generators and hot spots that plague law enforcement agencies in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999). There are many ways to reduce these hot spots with community programs in policing. This could include neighborhood watch groups and local business owners to control the rate of crime in the community. This increases surveillance within the community and cuts down on the number of police in these areas. The citizens in these communities and local business owners can report the findings to the local police for further investigation. Why focus on hot spots? Residential locations can generate as much as 85 percent of the repeat calls for service. Moreover, research indicates that in many communities, more than 50 percent of the calls for service come from only 10 percent of...
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...Pathos is the emotional part of the thought process. This part of rhetoric is important because being able to connect with someone on a emotional level is vital. Everyone recieves information in different ways. Using passion, we are able to bring out different emotions in people including happiness to anger. Pathos is the difference between someone listening to a speech and leaving without obtaining any information, compared to someone who hears a speech and changes their lifestyle based on what they heard. This is where Enargeia comes in. This is a method that a speaker can use to gain the attention of the audience. An example of using Enargia through Pathos is a mother speaking to an audience about Gun Laws. Her 16 year old son was innocently...
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...Civil Rights Diary - Watts Riots Brad Ellis HIS145 July 31, 2013 Alice Jones Civil Rights Diary - Watts Riots Sunday August 15, 1965: It has been a few days since I last wrote in my diary. It has been very busy around the entire city of Las Angeles. It started on Wednesday August 11th. I had just got home from working at the Douglas Outlet Co. and was looking forward to writing in my diary about the raise I got from my boss. Then I heard my neighbor Ronald yelling for his mom. He was yelling, “Mom they are going to take the car and Marquette.” I went outside and saw a large amount of people, more than I could count, running down the street toward Avalon Blvd. When I got to the corner of 116th street and Avalon Blvd, I saw Marquette, Ronald’s brother getting a yelling at from his mother Rena Price. Then it started to get wild! Somehow Rena got pushed and Marquette got hit by someone. The policemen started to fight with Marquette and Ronald and their mother Rena jumped on the backs of the policemen. By this time, the crowd had doubled or tripled in size. The crowd was not happy about the situation. It took about five minutes for the police to put all three of my neighbors under arrest. Once they had them in the back of the police car, they left as fast as they could. There were still a couple of policemen there, and they went to leave but the crowd started to hurl rocks and bricks at their car as they left. The policemen stopped the car and went to arrest another women...
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...views of the 'black' people as 'innately criminal' even more when it became judicious within the 1970's and the 1980s this is due to the muggings and moral panic which took place during this era, the moral panic fed into a bigger panic about the supposed 'black problem'. This had a major impact on police views, this is shown with the body of observational data from the 1960s and onwards, this showed cases of police initiated 'nigga hunting'. Critical criminological analysis of the MacPherson's reports that people from an ethnic minority society continued to feel that they would be treated worse by the police, or even another criminal justice agency this is due to their race. The findings on the police response to the BME victims of racist violance most usefully inofrms an understanding of the BME of data. the police fail to deal inadequately with a reports of an racial violence, this is showing that the police are failing to deliver their role properly. Within the period of 2010-11 shows that the BME people were stopped and searched as a rate of 37 or more time than their was ever white correspondents, the national data on the stop and search was under section 1 of the 1984 police and criminal evidence act; this is the section 60 of the 1994 Criminal Justice and the Public order act; and the 200 Terrorism act. The local precise recorded data which was from the NEPF which shows that under the stop and search act legislation between the time of April 2010 to 2011 in March,...
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...[pic] Term paper Term paper title : Campus Violence. Course : Eng-102 Sec : 19 Introduction: In our recent time campus violence is a worldwide burning and worrisomeissue. Political instability, student politics, psychological problem and mental instability of students are the most responsible factors to occur this incident frequently. Since globally campus violence is increasing in a concerning rate and general student s are the main sufferer of it, so we have to think about their future and solve this problem right away; otherwise a tremendous shock is waiting for us. And that is why we want to work on this topic. Campus Violence: A Haphazard condition in Educational Institutions What is Campus Violence? According to Oxford Dictionary violence means, “The behaviour involving or caused by physical force that is intended to hurt or kill somebody” and when the violence occurrs in educational campus, it is called CampusViolence. Violence is always prohibited and when it occurs in educational institutions, it is Obviously distressing and crucial fact. Worldwide educational institutions are faceing this problem frequently. It hampers the regular activities of the institutions. General students...
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...Scott Bowman Denise Beck W131 July 14, 2010 The Three White Knights of Sex When did sex become so open and recreational, and whose idea was to do that? Throughout humankind, sex is a huge part of our lives. If it weren't, then humans wouldn't probably exist today. It seems the past decade or so, sex, once an intimate and meaningful way of sharing the love of a married couple, turned into something like a hobby or a game. There are three articles that try to answer this question, and even go as far as saying whose fault it is. The first author, Dr. Jean M. Twenge, attempt to explain why Generation Me acts this way through the use of data and observations she collected. The second author, Vigen Guroian, uses the means of personal experience of his generation and compares it to his observations. Finally, the last author, Mragaret Morganroth Gullette, takes a strong stance in a feminist viewpoint that makes the text hard to follow and taken seriously. Although all articles have an agreement that this new idea about sex isn’t a wonderful thing, Twenge blames the older generation, while Guroian blames colleges and Gullette blames the media and men. For the most part, I agree with Twenge, however, college and the media play a strong role in the influence of sex, but men aren’t as responsible as Gullette lead on. To summerize, Twenge begins the section with the term “hooking up” as a term used for people that get together, have casual relations, then possibly never...
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...Theorists for Anthro, Scocio, Psyc. 1.Gilligan - Focus on survival, goodness as self-sacrifice and morality of non-violance 2. Piaget's - Child cognitive development Sensorimotor stage The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages in cognitive development which "extends from birth to the acquisition of language".[3] "In this stage, infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating experiences (such as seeing and hearing) with physical, motoric actions. Infants gain knowledge of the world from the physical actions they perform on it. An infant progresses from reflexive, instinctual action at birth to the beginning of symbolic thought toward the end of the stage. Piaget divided the sensorimotor stage into six sub-stages"[4]:0–2 years, Infants just have senses-vision, hearing, and motor skills, such as grasping, sucking, and stepping Preoperational stage The Cognitive Development Approaches. By observing sequences of play, Jean Piaget was able to demonstrate that towards the end of the second year, a qualitatively new kind of psychological functioning occurs.[6] (Pre)Operatory Thought is any procedure for mentally acting on objects. The hallmark of the preoperational stage is sparse and logically inadequate mental operations. During this stage, the child learns to use and to represent objects by images, words, and drawings.The child is able to form stable concepts as well as mental reasoning and magical beliefs. The child however is still not able...
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...Swapping4Cause Presents: SWAP TIL’ YOU DROP©2012 OUTLINE: 1. WHY SWAP? 2. HOW IT WORKS? 3. WHAT TO BRING? 4. SWAP TOKENS? 5. SHOP 6. SPA 7. GLAMOUR PHOTOS 8. CHARITIES 9. ORGANIZERS WHY SWAP? Some great reasons to swap 1. Swapping saves you money! 2. Swapping gets you great new clothes for FREE as you choose from thousands of fashion items 3. Swapping cleans out your closet and renews your wardrobe at the same time 4. Swapping creates an original look. Find unique, one-of-a-kind fashion items and accessories 5. Swapping supports the local community 6. Swapping helps to redirect clothing away from landfills 7. Swapping helps us to do our part to conserve resources and reduce our overall carbon footprint Financial Perks Let’s get real here – as a general rule of thumb, shopping isn’t wallet-friendly. But swapping is! Transform an entire wardrobe for the mere price of admission. Benefits to the environment A clothing swap lets you refresh your wardrobe, but it also helps reduce your carbon footprint. Instead of your clothes becoming waste, those items are redirected away from landfills and given a second chance. The less stuff going into landfills, the better. Benefits to the community All clothing left over from the swap will be donated to support those in need. Exchanging clothing isn’t the only thing that is exchanged at a swap. Swapping4 Cause Team believes in supporting...
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