Perceived victimization in the workplace: The role of situational factors and victim characteristics

Violence in the workplace, both physical and emotional, has become an increasingly serious component of organizational life. Most research on this subject examines the perpetrators of violence. In contrast, this study focuses on the victims' experiences, considering the question: Are there situational or dispositional characteristics that are likely to produce self-perceptions of victimization? Although this question raises the spector of blaming the victim, its answer is critical to developing management practices that. minimize peoples' experience of organizational violence.