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Education of entrepreneurs about importance of recognition and prevention of workplace violence as an important uncertainty reduction factor in the business enterprise
Gabrijela Budimir Šoško
Sažetak
Recent data about workplace violence are unfortunately showing an alarming increase. Workplace violence can take different forms, such as abuses related to work assignments, social isolation, verbal assault, and attacks directed to employee’s private life, insults and physical violence. In this paper focus will be placed at wider aspect of violence, encompassing all kinds of unwanted workplaces behaviour, since personal and organizational consequences of either workplace mobbing, sexual harassment, abuse, physical or psychological violence are very serious and significant. Also, the most of researches that are dealing with workplace violence are suggesting an education, as the first and the most important measure that helps in early recognition and prevention of these negative behaviours. Since there are very clearly suggestions in existing literature that there is a correlation between workplace violence and occurrence of higher rate of absenteeism caused by employees physical and mental illnesses, as well as frequent changes of jobs, early retirement, greater inclination of leaving the organization, a workplace violence proactive educational policy can play significant role. Conducted secondary research using the method of abstraction, description, comparison and classification, showed that there is a relationship between employees exposure to workplace violence and existence of educational policies that contain formal workplace violence procedures in the direction that companies that have educational policies that ensures higher awareness, better employee’s education and documented formal workplace violence procedures, have less rate of occurrence of workplace violence. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of including of workplace violence procedures in entrepreneur’s educational policies, as the factor that significantly contributes to workplace violence prevention, as well as positive outcomes that comes out as indirect benefits of this type of education. Additional aim is to increase general awareness of this problem and its considerable personal and organizational damaging consequences that any entrepreneur should not ignore.
Ključne riječi
Entrepreneurship educational policy; workplace violence
Hrčak ID:
134590
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.6.2014.
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