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

Violence in the workplace, both physical and emotional, has become an incre asingly serious component of organizational life. Most research on this sub ject examines the perpetrators of violence. In contrast, this study focuses on the victims' experiences, considering the question: Are there situation al or dispositional characteristics that are likely to produce self-percept ions 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.