Chapter 6

Associate Violence

Abstract

All organizations have a risk of violence in the workplace and all have the ability to see the various warning signal behaviors that occur prior to that violence, provided the perpetrators are known to the organization. When an organization builds a program designed to prevent violence, it must ensure that the goal is to detect these behaviors early enough to allow for proper management of the situation. The vast majority of the cases of violence or threats of violence in the workplace are not the highly publicized mass shooting cases, which are few, but rather they are the more common stalking, harassing, and intimidating behaviors that can lead to violence. These actions must be treated as precursors to violence ...

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