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A 7 page discussion of violence in the workplace. Traces the phenomena from the 1987 post office shooting that spawned the phrase "going postal". The author contends that the workplace has special conditions and considerations which make resolving conflict imperative before conflict turns into violence. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Workplace productivity is affected by a variety of different factors. One of the most important of these factors is the relationships that exists between co-workers. Too
often one of the most notable elements in workplace relationships, however, is conflict. Conflict, after all, is a natural component of all human interaction. Conflict can erupt even
among close family members and friends. It can also erupt between complete strangers. The workplace, however, has special conditions and considerations which make resolving conflict imperative before conflict
turns into violence. Violence in the workplace is an unfortunate reality of our modern day world. The phrase "going postal",
a phrase that came into popular usage after shocking incidents of shootings in the 1980s and 1990s in our nations post offices that were perpetuated by disgruntled federal employees, is
a glaring reflection of this reality. In a recent survey sponsored by New York based Risk Control Strategies and conducted by Prince Associates, fifty-eight percent of respondents reported threats
against senior managers in the last between July 1, 2005 and July 1, 2005 (Gurchiek, 2005). These threats ranged from face to face threats and threats delivered by e-mail
(twenty-four percent) to acts such as the downloading of computer viruses (seventeen percent) or product tampering (ten percent) (Gurchiek, 2005). Although the problem has been recognized in these workplaces
only a small fraction of them (fifteen percent) have allocated moneys to address the problem (Gurchiek, 2005). This is particularly concerning given that workplace violence as a whole is
estimated to have cost companies $121 billion in 2002 alone (Gurchiek, 2005). Workplace violence probably first came into widespread public consciousness
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