Workplace violence is a major threat to American companies, and costs billions of dollars each year is lost wages, health care, and legal fees. In light of current trends towards company downsizing and higher levels of job stress, these acts of violence are on the rise, and affect every employee and the entire community, as well. Since violence can come from any number of sources, including threats, actual physical violence, some sexual harassment, and even intimidation, it can be difficult to discern actual violence from harmless venting (Ginn, et al., 2002). Further, these traumas can strike without warning, which overwhelms the workers, families, and communities that are involved (Miller, 2002). This project was designed to discover reasons for workplace violence, and to discover reasons to employee anxiety about this violence, by utilizing survey data. This, in turn, will provide information about the types of education needed to combat workplace violence...
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