According to Canada’s business leaders and CEOs, little has changed in terms of the intensity of, form of, or precautions for violence in the workplace from almost three years ago. COMPAS revisited the issue of workplace violence with panelists, who were originally polled in May 2004 on the same subject, and found the following key findings:

The most prevalent form of violence continues to be verbal aggression while a sizeable minority have witnessed and/or experienced physical aggression, including throwing and destroying property and even shoving;

Alcohol and drugs, poor management and morale, and personal issues are widely believed to contribute in some part to workplace violence;

Aggression continues to be unrelated to the aggressor’s position in the organization and an appropriate reprimand is given in most but not all situations.

These are the principal findings from the weekly business web-survey conducted by COMPAS for the Financial Post under sponsorship of BDO Dunwoody LLP.

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