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Workplace Aggression

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Misbehaviour and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Organizations

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It will be difficult for many employees and emergency workers to forget the day a former transit employee for Ottawa Carleton Transpo in Canada entered the building in mid-afternoon with a rifle and started shooting, firing at the 150 employees working in the building, ultimately killing four transit workers, seriously wounding two others, and finally killing himself. Likewise, the day on which a man dismissed from the University of Arkansas’ graduate programme shot and killed his faculty supervisor and himself in a building on campus after finding out he had been dropped from the graduate programme will be difficult to remove from memory. And the day after Christmas in 2000 will linger in the memories of employees of Edgewater Technology Inc. in Wakefield, Massachusetts. That day, an employee shot and killed seven co-workers, apparently upset because the Internal Revenue Service wanted to garnish his wages as a result of his failure to pay taxes.

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    Abraham Sagie (Director of the School of Business Administration), Shmuel Stashevsky (Director of the International MBA Program) & Meni Koslowsky (Professor in the Department of Psychology) (Director of the School of Business Administration),  (Director of the International MBA Program) &  (Professor in the Department of Psychology)

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Dupré, K.E., Barling, J. (2003). Workplace Aggression. In: Sagie, A., Stashevsky, S., Koslowsky, M. (eds) Misbehaviour and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288829_2

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