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Workplace Violence: Reducing Risk
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Some news stories contain clear signals and indicators which reveal that the tools and skills of a threat management professional would have given insight and information, possibly changing the story's outcome dramatically and positively. Other items are of general threat management interest.
Workplace violence at Edmonton warehouse
A 29-year-old man with a history of erratic behaviour is in custody after a workplace stabbing rampage committed by a suspect carrying two knives. Two men are dead, and four others were seriously injured in the attack.
Jayme Joshua Pasieka, an employee of the Loblaw distribution centre in west Edmonton, was arrested Friday evening after an intense, citywide manhunt...
$800,000 award for bungled and ignored harassment complaint
The City of Calgary is reviewing its workplace policies regarding sexual harassment after an $800,000 award was granted by an arbitrator to an employee who was sexually assaulted several times in 2010.
Labour advocates and union leaders say the city failed on a number of levels in a case involving a clerk who was fondled by a foreman, and then fondled again a number of times after she complained to a supervisor...
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How Workplace Conflict is Killing Your Bottom Line
In its 2010 Cost of Conflict Avoidance study, VitalSmarts found employees waste an average of $1,500 and an eight-hour workday for every crucial conversation they avoid. In extreme cases of avoidance, an organization’s bottom line can be hit especially hard.
The study found that 8 percent of employees estimate their inability to deal with an uncomfortable issue costs their organization more than $10,000. Further, one in 20 estimate that during the course of a drawn-out silent conflict, they waste time ruminating about the problem for more than six months.
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Southern Poverty Law Center - Originally a civil rights law office formed in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, the Southern Poverty Law Center now focuses on "tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups". There is much important and interesting information on the SPL website, but here's a link specifically to their Hate Map, which details different kinds of hate groups in the United States active in 2009, by location.
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