Teachers’ Workplace Victimization

Teachers’ Workplace Victimization in Israel: An Ecosystemic Model: Prof. Shay Tzafrir, Prof. Guy Enosh & Dr. Ruth  Berkowitz

Workplace practitioners, policy makers, and researchers have recognized the importance of keeping employees safe and protected from violence at work across numerous professions and workplace settings. In the published scientific literature, researchers have studied employees’ sense of safety at work and workplace victimization in hospitals, social work agencies and private and public sectors. Surprisingly, however, both management and education literatures have broadly overlooked schools as settings in which serious workplace violence occurs. To date, about 40 articles have been written on violence against teachers internationally; however, many of these studies are purely descriptive in nature and did not comprehensively examine teachers’ workplace victimization (TWV). The proposed study will attempt to provide an evidence-based assessment of Israeli TWV antecedents and outcomes, using a multi-perspective, mixed-methods approach to capture and analyze the experience and consequences for teachers to facilitate effective intervention guidelines.