“How One Misstep Triggered an HR Director’s Emotional Crisis—and What It Revealed About Workplace Culture”
Seemingly small actions that go against the rules can have deeply negative repercussions for your colleagues
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One employee shared how he set off a chain of events that broke his new head of HR
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Toxic workplaces don’t just harm the employees, they also affect the bottom line
According to MIT Sloan Management Review, there are very practical reasons to focus on workplace culture. 90% of CEOs and CFOs in North America believe that improving corporate culture would also boost financial performance.
“Most of these executives ranked a healthy culture as one of the top three among all factors—including strategy, innovation, brand, patents, and others—in terms of its impact on results. More than 80% also acknowledged that their organization’s culture was not as healthy as it should be.”
Paradoxically, even though there was enough self-awareness regarding the need for improvement, leaders failed to invest enough time and resources in overhauling things. Part of the issue is that leaders are simply not sure where they can start.
Broadly speaking, there are five attributes of toxic culture: disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive.
Toxic workplaces not only contribute to greater stress and burnout but can also lead to anxiety, depression, and physical disease.
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