SOCI 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Work Hard, Play Hard, Workplace Violence, Role Theory
15 Sep 2016
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Suck it up buttercup": a culture of acceptable workplace violence in group. To identify conditions that promote or hinder the development of a safe and respectful workplace. Roth noted that workplace violence may ne i the rise in canada. Of the 76 workers in the study, 90% reported being subjected to an act of workplace violence in the last year. The most frequent being kicking, pushing, biting, etc. The severity of the violence was assessed i the context of three criteria: medical attention was required, debriefing/counselling was involved, loss time for work. There was also a relationship (which accounted for 15% of the variability with . Managers were fully aware of the violence, and the managerial message appeared to be suck it up buttercup". In a reported study of violence in six nursing homes, one care home was an exception (gates: respondents reported feeling supported, cared for, and respected by the administration.
