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The Role of Communication in Preventing Workplace Sabotage
Author(s) -
Giesberg Jeffrey
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb00184.x
Subject(s) - harmony (color) , perception , corporation , psychology , public relations , workplace safety , workplace violence , social psychology , business , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , political science , medicine , art , environmental health , finance , neuroscience , law , visual arts
Motivations for employee sabotage range broadly; however, the consequences can be tragic for an American corporation. The present study warrants the need for public awareness of workplace violence as well as perception, cause, and prevention. Using historical data and a hybrid of the multidimensional scaling technique, the findings were extrapolated to describe and better acquaint employers with effective means of preventing violent behaviors among individual workers. Results of this study suggest that a lack of effective employer/employee exchange of communication is the primary cause for corporate sabotage in the event of major corporate change. The findings empirically validate that communication precludes the potential consequences that employee violence may bring. Discussing ways to improve the workplace together with management may enable employees to discover common ground and to recreate workplace harmony.