PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Society For Human Resource Management, Substance Abuse
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Absenteeism and turnover for employers and employees. Feelings of little impact on coworkers or the organization. Managing stress: change your behavior to helpfully respond to stress. Lack of child care results in 8 more days of absenteeism. Allow employee to bring child to work in emergency (26%) 50% of employees missed work, were late, or quit their jobs due to elder care responsibilities. Homicide reason for 11% of workplace fatalities. 1% of employees annually victims of workplace violence. 15% of violent crimes committed while the victim was at work. Rate of workplace violence has been declining since 1993. Homicides during commission of a crime (70%) Homicide of a law enforcement officer (19%) 20-50 years of age (usually in his 40s) Feels there is no other way of resolving this mistreatment other than violence. Demonstrated a recent pattern of problems at work. Has recently tried to get others to take his dilemma seriously by threatening, yelling, etc.