Workplace Violence Case Study

1.0 Introduction
Nowadays, human resource management play an important role in development of the company. Human Resource Management (HRM) is defined as the process of acquiring, training, appraising, compensation, attending to employees labour relation and health and safety.(Gary Dessler, 2015) Human resource management is of paramount important because it helps company to fully utilise their worker by employing the skills and ability of the workforce efficiently in order to achieve the organisational goal. The human resource management also play an important in increasing the employee’s job satisfaction and self-actualisation and stimulate the employee’s potential. Moreover, Human Resource Management also act as role to create a sense

The safety of the employees is most at risk when there is workplace violence happening. Thus, the human resource has to personnel screening for employees in order to have better understanding of the employees’ background, whether they have any records of workplace violence in the past. Referring to Joel H Neuman’s Journal of Workplace Violence(2015), the main purposes to screening is to uncover the pattern of aggressive behavior such as conviction for crime of violence. The safety and security concerns of the the personnel screening are unverifiable history, past criminal record and associations because this could directly be a threat to others employees as well as the safety of the employers. By having this practices of safety and health, the risk for the workplace violence can be minimized and the safety of everyone within the organisation is being concerned. A pre-employment testing is also needed as the perspective of safety and health. Structured interview can be designed not just to assess the knowledge, skill and abilities of the employees, but also concern about their attitude and behavior which might be against the safety and health

Several training can carry out to improve employee knowledge, skill, ability and attitude such as cross cultural training, leadership training, team training, safety training to make sure that employee are good in team working with others as well as team self-regulation strategies. Conflict management will be provided for the entire level of organization in the company to create harmonious. If employees performance is improved, company will encourage them through reward system, motivation, and appreciation, all these can motivate employees confident. Other than that, safety and health will take consideration of the safety system in workplace environment such as design of workplace, security system of workplace.
HRM will make sure they have enough employee in every sector in the department in order to prevent operation of the business. Next, different type of employee will categorise by HRM into different department to fit the job, this is to make sure conflict of the organisation can be handle easily in future by providing certain training for certain department. Employees will avoid unethical behavior such as threatening, verbal harassment to prevent