The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen your research skills and expand your knowledge. You will need to research material beyond the class readings to investigate an Employee Relations topic in more depth The topic to be researched and discussed is the ER issues in preventing workplace violence (i.e., by type of industry or by type of violence or by type of victim or perpetrator). You might think about studying a workplace that experienced a violent episode. What did they do to ?recover?? How were employees, managers, and stockholders affected?