Handbook of Workplace Violence

by E. Kevin Kelloway

• ISBN13: 9780761930624
• ISBN10: 0761930620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-24
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

Research on workplace violence has proliferated in recent years. Handbook of Workplace Violence reflects and summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding all aspects of workplace violence and aggression. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of current theory, research and organizational practice relating to workplace violence and aggression.Part One of the book summarizes the leading theoretical perspectives on violence and aggression and provides prevalence estimates for aggression and violence in North American workplaces. In Part Two leading experts in the field summarize what is known about the sources of workplace violence, forms of aggression in the workplace and populations at special risk for workplace violence and aggression. Part Three of the book considers the experience of victims as well as individual) and organizational interventions designed to prevent, or ameliorate the consequences of, workplace violence.

Table of Contents

Part I: Perspectives on Workplace Violence	1	(90)
Editors' Introduction to Part I	3	(4)
Violence as Instrumental Behavior	7	(22)
Richard B. Felson
Emotions, Violence, and Counterproductive Work Behavior	29	(18)
Paul E. Spector
Suzy Fox
Theresa Domagalski
Prevalence of Workplace Aggression in the U.S. Workforce: Findings From a National Study	47	(44)
Aaron C. H. Schat
Michael R. Frone
E. Kevin Kelloway
Part II: Sources and Forms of Workplace Violence	91	(398)
Editors' Introduction to Part II	93	(2)
Workplace Emotional Abuse	95	(26)
Loraleigh Keashly
Steve Harvey
Workplace Bullying	121	(26)
Charlotte Rayner
Cary L. Cooper
Violence in Nursing	147	(22)
Marilyn Lanza
School Violence	169	(42)
Irvin Sam Schonfeld
Workplace Violence in the Police	211	(20)
Stephen B. Perrott
E. Kevin Kelloway
Crossing the Line: Violence on the Picket Line	231	(30)
Lori Francis
James E. Cameron
E. Kevin Kelloway
Public-Initiated Violence	261	(20)
Manon Mireille LeBlanc
Kathryne E. Dupre
Julian Barling
The Battlefield as Workplace: Violence in Warfighting	281	(28)
LCol Kelly M. J. Farley
Victor M. Catano
Violence in Peacekeeping	309	(22)
Michelle Inness
Julian Barling
Community Sources of Workplace Violence	331	(20)
Joerg Dietz
Harjinder Gill
The Consequences of Partner Violence on Employment and the Workplace	351	(30)
Jennifer E. Swanberg
TK Logan
Caroline Macke
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Look Back and a Look Ahead	381	(36)
Collette Arens Bates
Lynn Bowes-Sperry
Anne M. O'Leary-Kelly
Young Workers	417	(28)
Sean Tucker
Catherine Loughlin
A Case of Cyberdeviancy: Cyberaggression in the Workplace	445	(44)
Terrance Weatherbee
E. Kevin Kelloway
Part III: Prevention and Intervention	489	(144)
Editors' Introduction to Part III	491	(2)
Organizational Response to Workplace Violence	493	(24)
Elizabeth Kelley
Jane Mullen
The Experience of Victims: Using Theories of Traumatic and Chronic Stress to Understand Individual Outcomes of Workplace Abuse	517	(18)
Theresa M. Glomb
Lilia M. Cortina
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and Workplace Violence	535	(14)
Joseph J. Hurrell Jr.
Screening and Selecting Out Violent Employees	549	(30)
Arla L. Day
Victor M. Catano
Training as a Workplace Aggression Intervention Strategy	579	(28)
Aaron C. H. Schat
E. Kevin Kelloway
Preventing Insider-Initiated Workplace Violence	607	(26)
M. Sandy Hershcovis
Julian Barling
Name Index	633	(28)
Subject Index	661	(24)
About the Editors	685	(2)
About the Contributors	687