Workplace Violence
Miss Martha a graduate of accounting just joined. Goke and sons micro finance bank as the. Director of operations.
Two weeks into her resumption one of the accountants, Mr Nick started noticing some awkward behaviours like: Aggression,threats, harassing other staffs, irresponsible actions, being unreasonable on some decisions,standing and looking lost and constant yelling at support staffs. But he just took it with levity, but decided to investigate why young miss Martha had all of these attitude in her. This kept on going for long until a day came, when the company had a meeting with all the staffs, during the meeting miss Martha was lost in taught as usual, and MR Victory working for the IT Department was making a proposition to Miss Martha’s department, but because she was lost in taught she wasn’t listening so. Mr Victory tried to call her attention. And all of a sudden miss Martha grabbed unto Mr victories shirt and started yelling at him “Why are you shouting at me “every one was amazed at her actions that d managing director Mr. Toba had to call for a cancellation of the meeting, after which he called. The HR manager for miss marthas file. And then it was found out that she skipped the background checks stage of the employment. Then they decided to run a background check on her only for them to find out that miss marthas awkward behaviours are due to her Drug addiction problem. Then the HR manager did not have any choice then to terminate her appointment and refer her to a rehabilitation centre. Before she does something worse to a client.
That was how. Goke and sons microfinance bank managed to eradicate workplace violence. And they never failed to do back ground checks on applicants before they are hired.
Workplace violence indicators
A worker headed toward workplace violence just like miss Martha might exhibit some of these behaviour:
Threats
A fascination with violence
Being unreasonable
Intimidation
Irresponsible actions
Desperation
Chronic depression
Substance abuse
so in any case where you find out where a staff possess multiple of the above characteristics do well to notify the authorities or you might as well be his/her first target.
FORMS OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
- Threatening behaviour – such as shaking fists, destroying property or throwing objects.
- Verbal or written threats – any expression of an intent to inflict harm.
- Harassment – any behaviour that demeans, embarrasses, humiliates, annoys, alarms or verbally abuses a person and that is known or would be expected to be unwelcome. This includes words, gestures, intimidation, bullying, or other inappropriate activities.
- Verbal abuse – swearing, insults or condescending language.
- Physical attacks – hitting, shoving, pushing or kicking.
Prevent violence in my workplace
- Define what you mean by workplace violence in precise, concrete language.
- Provide clear examples of unacceptable behavior and working conditions.
- State in clear terms your organization’s view toward workplace violence and its commitment to the prevention of workplace violence.
- Precisely state the consequences of making threats or committing violent acts.
- Outline the process by which preventive measures will be developed.
- Encourage reporting of all incidents of violence.
- Outline the confidential process by which employees can report incidents and to whom.
- Assure no reprisals will be made against reporting employees.
- Outline the procedures for investigating and resolving complaints.
- Conducting Background check, previous employer verification, criminal record checks and Neighborhood check on applicants before they are hired.
- Make a commitment to provide support services to victims of violence.
- Offer a confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to allow employees with personal problems to seek help.
- Make a commitment to fulfill the violence prevention training needs of different levels of personnel within the organization.
- Make a commitment to monitor and regularly review the policy.
The first step to fighting workplace violence in every organization, is conducting a background check on every staff before they are hired.
This action tends to tackle criminals, drug addicts etc who would then result to violent staffs hence making the workplace unsafe for other staffs and clients.
NB; Get a background check service today. To stay safe.
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- On October 10, 2016
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