Mathew Beck's Use Of Workplace Violence In The Workplace

Workplace violence is a danger and an occupation threat for employees and employers in the modern society. America reports multiple cases of workplace violence every year. The issue of workplace violence has caught most people’s attention due to terrible cases like that of Mathew Beck. Mathew worked as an accountant at the Connecticut State Lottery. However, he had developed conflicts with his employers due to increased workload and poor pay, which resulted in him shooting his four bosses one morning. It is unfortunate that the government and the employers are not doing enough to abolish workplace violence. This essay analyzes the Mathew Beck incident in explaining workplace violence; including studying what could have made the employer move to such extreme violent acts. The paper also explains how the Connecticut State Lottery could have done in preventing the incident from happening using the Office of Personnel Management handbook; despite the fact it could have faced legal constraints from the Americans with Disabilities Act.

After Mathew Beck killed his bosses at the Connecticut State Lottery, many people tried to understand the reason for his action. It is likely that the despair at the office contributed to his action. Beck felt that he had failed in his career in Connecticut

The killing was not through a sudden instinct or rush of adrenaline. The killing appeared to have been planned for quite some time. The fact that he targeted his four bosses shows that the killings were done to revenge on the wrong things that they had done to him, including increased workload that was not compensated for. The description of the shooting shows that he did not want anybody else in the organization to get hurt apart from the bosses. Beck was a cognitive aggressor because he seems to have planned everything during the day of the