Workplace Violence Prevention – Myths, Confusion & Misunderstandings
Turn on the news and you will see violence in the workplace happening every day. Are you taking proactive steps to protect your employees?
Turn on the news and you will see violence in the workplace happening every day. Are you taking proactive steps to protect your employees?
In this Blog I ask John Byrnes, CEO of Aggression Management to draw an important correlation between management commitment in understanding the need to invest in an appropriate prevention strategy and training tactics that deliver results. Such prevention strategy must include quality training for supervisors and employees on recognizing at risk employees and situations. “It is irrational to believe that employee engagement campaigns can effectively be administered from the bottom up. Yet, workplace violence prevention tends to be a bottom up effort that eventually loses momentum because it lacks senior management commitment.” True workplace violence prevention takes place when senior management understands the