Introduction
Roughly 50% of large American organizations (those with at least one thousand employees) reported an incident of workplace violence (United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Survey of Workplace Violence Prevention 2005). In Canada, 21% of employees sampled reported experience some form of workplace violence, while 14% said that they experienced workplace violence within the last 2 years (Employment and Social Development Canada 2017). Workplace violence can encompass various types of deviant behaviors that produce harm physically or psychologically (Demir and Rodwell 2012), such as bullying (i.e., persistent acts of aggression toward an individual; Nielsen and Einarsen 2012), incivility (i.e., rude or discourteous behaviors with ambiguous intent; Leiter et...
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Thibault, T., Kelloway, E.K. (2019). Workplace Violence: Past and Current Employees. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_98-1
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