Carole Spiers: Managing stress at the top

‘No one forced you to accept the job of a CEO!’ is a cry from the wife of the senior executive of a multi-national pharmaceutical company. ‘You are never home on time and your mind always seems to be somewhere else!’. So why does someone choose to take on the full responsibility of a company? Is it […]

“Workplace Violence” in a Globalized World

This is the second in a series of segments which together comprise a larger paper presented at the  Ninth World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion, Merida, Mexico, focusing on workplace violence from a “global” perspective. In its entirety, this paper examines the contributing factors of workplace abuse which plague both developed and developing nations. Research in “Workplace Violence” is in its infancy. In some […]