Citation

Knefel AMC, Bryant CD. Deviant Behav. 2004; 25(6): 579-601.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

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Abstract

Workplace violence occurs in disparate forms and within numerous workplace contexts. Some appropriate organizing and synthesizing efforts in regard to facts and information concerning workplace violence are requisite to any meaningful insight and understanding of such behavior. Toward this end, this paper posits a conceptual paradigm of workplace violence that articulates six occupational contexts: Workplace as Locus, Workplace as Opportunity Structure, Workplace as Incubator, Workplace as Target, Workplace as Nexus, and Workplace as Perpetrator. The second dimension of the matrix paradigm hypothesizes two categories of victimization patterns: Targeted and Collateral. This paradigm includes examples and an examination of workplace violence for each cell of the matrix. This conceptual paradigm is an attempt to offer an overview of the complexities of the social dynamics of workplace violence, and a more informed understanding of such anti-social behavior as a platform for future research on this phenomenon.