Tag Archive: Anger management

Apr 02 2012

Stress, plane and simple

By Diane Stafford After a few workplace violence events in mail centres, “going postal” entered the lexicon. This week, thanks to a widely shared newspaper headline about the inflight meltdown of a JetBlue pilot, we got: “This is your captain freaking.” Though not particularly fair or nice, the shorthand descriptions of workplace outbursts are here …

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Dec 13 2011

Verbal threats as workplace violence

By Justin Tetreault, CanadianLawyerMag.com An arbitrator has rejected the grievance of an employee who challenged her dismissal for uttering a death threat towards a co-worker in one of the first awards to consider the impact of Bill 168 on how parties must deal with workplace violence, and specifically verbal threats. On June 15, 2010, amendments …

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Jun 25 2010

How not controlling your temper affects your career

By M.Collins, Helium.com Everyone gets angry from time to time. Wise parents teach children early to control their tempers. Uncontrolled anger hurts people, can be dangerous, and in the workplace can affect your career success. If you cannot control yourself, how can you direct junior staff properly? Someone who has an uncertain temper cannot be …

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Mar 10 2010

Workplace & school violence and the importance of recognizing signs of aggression

By Joel Griffin, SecurityInfoWatch.com As more and more incidents of workplace and school shootings dominate headlines across the country, security managers find themselves looking for ways to identify potential threats before they manifest themselves into acts of violence. Often the warning signs exhibited by those responsible for bringing terror to their local communities are not …

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