This book integrates insights from the fields of management and social psychology to identify the sources of workplace violence, and offer readers practical strategies for preventing it, protecting themselves and their employees from it, and reacting swiftly and effectively when it happens.

Contents: 1. Understanding workplace violence : myths and realities -- 2. What is workplace violence? -- 3. Incidence of workplace and impact on employees and organizations -- 4. Factors contributing to workplace violence -- 5. Workplace sexual harassment -- 6. Intimate partner violence as a workplace concern -- 7. Managing violence, aggression, and other abusive behaviors in the workplace.