Introduction Human beings are social in nature. Notably, when people socialize, they are bound to either make friends or enemies. Naturally, some persons perceive themselves to be superior to other persons. This is done based on various aspects such as age, experience, academic qualifications, ethnic affiliation, and length of service in an organization among others. This has led to the rise in conflict among many organizations resulting in massive losses. The nursing industry has not been exempted as it has experienced such challenges over the years. Recently, there have been an increased number of incidences involving harassment, assault, intimidation, and bullying in the workplace. Bullying has been reported as the worst form of aggression and violence geared towards nurses. Horizontal violence can be defined as conflict amongst peers in the case of nurses. Nurses have been charged with a very important responsibility of providing care to sick individuals. However, ironical on how they engage in savage acts of harassment and bullying. This goes against the expectations of their career. The most important purpose of healthcare is to provide patients with emotional and physical care. Poor personal relationships can lead to poor work performance, errors, sabotage, and accidents at the workplace. Horizontal violence contributes to a high human resource turnover due to job dissatisfaction. Incidences of violence amongst workmates are totally unacceptable. This is because it has a negative effect on team building and teamwork. This is not only in the nursing industry, butalso in other work places. Literature review According to King-Jones (2011), horizontal violence is the expressive and the non-expressive nonphysical hostility. He holds that horizontal violence is the unfriendly incidences experienced by some nurses who are beginning their careers in nursing (King-Jones, 2011). Horizontal violence takes place in various forms of psychological torture. This includes issue of threats, verbal abuses, humiliation, intimidation and discouragement, denial of access to opportunities, and withholding of information. It has been reported that exposure to bullying behavior can be psychologically distressing. It has been documented that some nursing personnel have had to leave their profession as a consequence of bullying. Usually, these cases go unreported due to fear of retaliation from accused parties (Coverdale, et al, 2003). Nurses who have the responsibility of providing medical and emotional support often turn towards each other with hostility and aggression. This is a form of horizontal violence that involves bullying or interpersonal conflict. The nursing profession has little tolerance for physical or verbal aggression. The profession has developed strict rules and regulations to deter this practice. It is highly expected for nurses to receive hostile treatment from sick patients or their family, but this does not compare to horizontal violence. Horizontal violence hurts them significantly because it comes from colleagues (Leiper, 2005). Leiper (2005) argues that the management should embrace transformational leadership skills in the work place. These in