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Hello!
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA, some 2 million workers are victims of workplace violence each year and a trend that is on the rise. Verbal abuse, physical assaults and homicides are a growing concern for employers and employees nationwide. While there are many healthy workplaces in America, no organization is immune. With employees fearing the loss of income or on-the-job consequences, incidents go unreported. The unreported incidents can escalate the anger continuum scale from frustration to violence. Actually, the top leadership team may not even know that their organization is operating a toxic environment. It's time to eliminate the "It will never happen here or to me." mindset.
Today's economy has organizations running faster and leaner than ever with one person carrying the workload that two or three people typically carried. Organizations feel a sense of urgency and fail to take the time to properly train employees and develop their managers into effective leaders. Quality, morale and safety are being jeopardized. Employees are fending for themselves and the dynamic of us versus them is evolving. Apathy is setting in and high burnout is prevailing.
7 Signs of a Toxic Workplace
- Instilled Fear and Anxiety
- Extreme Control and Rigid Systems
- Bullying
- Distrust of Others
- Negativity
- Resistance to Change
- Dysfunction, Dysfunction, Dysfunction
Organizations need to wake up and take the necessary steps to keep everyone safe, healthy and productive. Implementing organizational best practices will also ensure that an organization stays in business. When employees are motivated to come to work each day, they will perform better. An organization will see its costs associated with turnover absenteeism, healthcare premiums, employee relations litigations, customer complaints and operational mistakes reduced. It will see morale, productivity and customer satisfaction increase. Pride and respect will be instilled throughout the organization and profits will increase.
If you are working in a healthy workplace, be grateful. If not, what is keeping you from creating a healthy workplace? Remove the toxicity before it's too late.
To your being healthy, fulfilled and happy,
Nancy
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