HORIZONTAL VIOLENCE

Horizontal Violence

Horizontal Violence

Introduction

When an individual or a member of a group shows aggressive or hostile behavior towards other in the group or outside the group is described as inter-group conflict. While the members facing this inter-group conflict Urge to working together and oppose and eliminate these behaviors from the workplace. This is called the horizontal violence.

Data Analysis

Techniques to Analyze Collected Data

While doing the research, the technique that we will use in order to analyze the collected data, on the prevalence of horizontal violence in a healthcare setting, is the Likert scale. Likert scaling is a method of attitude, opinion, or perception assessment of a unidimensional variable or a construct made up of multidimensions or subscales. It recognizes the contribution to attitude assessment of Rensus Likert who published a classic paper on this topic in 1932, based on his doctoral dissertation directed by Gardner Murphy and based on work Murphy had undertaken in 1929. The use of Likert items and scaling is probably the most used survey methodology in educational and social science research and evaluation. The major advantage of Likert scale that it quick and easy scale to build.

The Likert scale provides a score based on a series of items that have two parts. One part is the stem that is a statement of fact or opinion to which the respondent is asked to react. The other part is the response scale. Likert was the first recognized for the use of a 5-point, ordinal scale of strongly approve—approve—undecided— disapprove—strongly disapprove. The scale is often changed to other response patterns such as strongly agree—agree—neutral—disagree—strongly disagree. This entry discusses Likert's approach and scoring methodology and examines the research conducted on Likert scaling and its modifications.

In Likert's original research, which led to Likert scaling, Likert compared four ways of structuring attitude survey items believing that there was an alternative to the approach attributed to Louis Leon Thurstone. Although both approaches were based on equal-interval, ordinal stepped scale points, Likert considered Thurstone's methods to be a great deal of work that was not necessary. Setting up a Thurstone scale involved the use of judges to evaluate statements to be included in the survey. This included rank ordering the statements in terms of the expected degree of the attribute being assessed and then comparing and ordering each pair of item possibilities, which is an onerous task if there were many item possibilities. Originally, each item ...