Violence at Workplace

How to Control Violence at Workplace? By SiliconIndia | Thursday, 01 March 2012, 16:50 IST |

Bangalore: Have you ever experienced violence in your workplace? If yes, then keep in mind that the idea of workplace violence is scaring to almost everyone. In India, workplace violence’s are quite common as several incidents in the past and present have proved the hostility and arrogance of the employees. Violence at workplace can be of different types like mental, emotional or also many a times lead to physical abuse.
According to Debhashish Sengupta of the Hindu, one such tragic example of workplace violence happened when the DGM (operations) of the company Graphite India Powermax Steel division, was killed when some terminated employees staging protest outside the plant at Bolangir (Orissa) stopped his car and allegedly set it on fire.
In September 2009, a similar case happened when the Vice President (HR) of an auto manufacturing corporation was killed by a group of suspended workers in his cabin in the company's unit about 20 km from Coimbatore. Previously, in September 2008, at Greater Noida, the CEO and Managing Director of Cerlikon-Graziano Transmission India was assassinated by a group of provoked employees.