Signs and Outcomes of a Toxic Workplace

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An unhealthy workplace affects people cognitively, physiologically, and emotionally.?The rude behaviors, as well as the distrust, poison a company’s culture.?Bad behaviors and attitudes are repeated by the boss, employee, or organization as a whole.

Employees feel devalued, there is a lack of growth or learning opportunities, and company change management efforts or announcements are met with skepticism.

When employees feel unable to use their intellectual capital and potentials, they become unmotivated and experience low job satisfaction.?Morale among coworkers is low, and the intention to quit is very high. ?

With a strong sense of insecurity, injustice, or dishonesty felt – emotional responses include anger, disrespect, distress, and shame. Interpersonal teamwork - such as bonding, trust, dependability, and good citizenship - is impaired by abusive supervisors and leadership.

Organizational silence is action that is purposefully and actively enacted to keep employees quiet.?This is a result of the organizational climate, culture, and management style.?

Research has shown that there is not just one single behavior that poisons a workplace. Rather, it can develop from harmful patterns that accumulate over time.?

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Bottom line effects of a toxic culture include absenteeism, fewer hours worked, and an increase in sick days. Dysfunctional behaviors threaten the wellbeing of the company, its members, or both. According to the CDC, absenteeism and worker illness cost U.S. employers more than $225.8 billion .

When employees can no longer take the personal and professional threats of going to work, they are desperate to leave the poisonous environment. Sadly, trauma and negative symptoms remain for years even after leaving the job.

Through the trauma of the pandemic on all of our senses, we are fragile mentally and emotionally. Our threat responses are triggered and the only seeming control we have in uncertainty is to leave. When work becomes meaningless and we cannot participate as the whole selves that we are, the impulse is to save ourselves and quitting becomes an act of self-preservation.

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