Workplace Violence – Case Study

Problem Definition:
Aggression behavior in an insecure work environment

Justification for Problem Definition:

This disaster occurred due to Ineffective communications between all levels within the firm and the
lack of a security system. This was evident when Meyers was able to get a gun into assembly plant
and no one from the security directed it.

Regrettably, that was not an isolated incident. Just 2 years earlier, Willaims was able to get a several
guns and shot six coworkers to death and wounded eight others before committing suicide.

OSHA announced that 20,000 assaults and 792 homicides occurred at workplaces throughout the US
in 2005. Hence, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to label workplace violence a
“national epidemic”

Such repetitive behavior has negatively affected employees, their families, and production as well.

List of Alternative course of action:

1- Adopting Effective Security System

2- Monitoring

3- Recruitment

Evaluate Alternatives:
Adopting Effective Security System: The firm must adopt an effective security system that contains
the latest systems that make it difficult to bring firearms into the workplace.

Contracting with a qualified security company to secure the workers inside the firm and monitor all
places where workers gather with cameras.

Monitoring: Management must do appropriate efforts to monitor the performance and behavior of
its employees, provide a clear escalation path, and establish ways of communication in the event of
workers' complaints or grievances.

Recruitment: Employee behavior should be of the utmost concern to recruiters as well as their
technical skills and work experience.
 Workplace Violence – Case Study
Recruiters must conduct background checks on potential employees. can reveal whether the
candidate has a violent past.

During this process, the firm must adopt a collegial behavior model as the basis of this model is
partnership with a managerial orientation of teamwork and employees in turn are oriented towards
responsible behavior and self-discipline.

Conclusion & Recommendations:

There are several measures must be followed to prevent such accidents from happening again. The
management has to establish a strict anti-violence policy that empower the employees to report
violent and harassing behaviors and other signs.

Management must encourage employees to accept individual differences and create a supportive
environment.

Employees labor union should seek to enact a law that prohibits people from buying weapons.