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A persistent phenomenon

WHY DOES VIOLENCE RESURFACE
EVEN AFTER CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN RESOLVED?

Contrary to popular belief, most of the time, the source of the violence is not related to the individuals who are in conflict, or to their personality or history.

VIOLENCE STEMS FROM A SET OF INTERRELATED FACTORS

PERSONAL FACTORS	Certain personal characteristics may be seen as components of a “persecutor” psychological profile in the aggressor, whereas victims generally have poor self-esteem or the impression that they have been treated unjustly. Workers who tend to object often or who do not adhere to standards may be subject to violence more frequently than those who automatically adhere to the codes in place. Regardless, there is no typical aggressor or victim profile as such.
INTERPERSONAL FACTORS	These include male/female relationships, for example, and factors such as rivalry, jealousy, lack of support, or the formation of cliques within the organization. .
SOCIAL OR SOCIETAL FACTORS	These can be defined, for example, in terms of exposure to violence in the media, changes in social and economic structures, poverty, or racism, among other things..
ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS	These may involve factors such as precarious employment, management style, role ambiguity or conflict, excessive hierarchization, poor job design, or increasingly fragile work groups.

In summary, violence is a phenomenon caused by many factors, all of which must be examined to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon.

However, of all these factors, organizational factors appear to be of major significance in the emergence of violence.

It is often factors related to how the work is organized (e.g. lack of communication and transparency in the organization, little employee autonomy) that play a part in the emergence of violence. These factors place individuals in difficult situations and opposing roles (e.g. perpetrator and victim).

Moreover, the organizational aspect includes factors on which it is possible to act in workplaces, unlike societal factors, over which organizations have little power.

Yet organizations often tend to analyze the situation on a case-by-case basis and to attribute violence solely to personal factors. Thus they tend not to act on the source of the violence, but rather to wait for a crisis to occur before trying to resolve a conflict among the individuals concerned

When work organization is involved and it is not subject to review or questioning, episodes of violence risk recurring even after interpersonal conflicts have been resolved. .

A matter that concerns us all!

A persistent phenomenon

WHY DOES VIOLENCE RESURFACE EVEN AFTER CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN RESOLVED?

WHY DOES VIOLENCE RESURFACE
EVEN AFTER CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN RESOLVED?