MANAGEMENT


SO YOUR WORKPLACE IS TOXIC: HOW CAN YOU FIX IT?


IN A RECENT SURVEY OF TECH WORKERS, MORE THAN HALF THE RESPONDENTS SAID THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE WORKING IN AN UNHEALTHY WORK ENVIRONMENT. OF 9,000 PARTICIPANTS IN THE 2018 POLL BY BLIND, AN ANONYMOUS WORKPLACE APP, A QUARTER OF THE GOOGLE EMPLOYEES WHO RESPONDED SAID THEY VIEWED THEIR WORKPLACE AS TOXIC; MORE THAN A THIRD AT FACEBOOK THOUGHT SO, TOO; AND ALMOST HALF AT AMAZON AND INTEL SAID THEY WERE LABORING AWAY UNDER TOXIC CONDITIONS.


Nearly a fi fth of American workers


across a wider swath of industries said they faced a hostile or threatening work environment in a 2017 survey conducted by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and UCLA.


32 DOMmagazine.com | aug 2019 Has toxicity at work become


the new normal? Many workers believe that it is. “I think what we are seeing is more people resigned to the fact that toxicity is a natural state of the workplace, and that is


inherently problematic,” says Wharton management professor Stephanie Creary.


But is the workplace really any


more toxic than it once was? Not that long ago, after all, women were


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68