A toxic management culture is a set of behaviors, attitudes, and values that create a negative and harmful work environment for employees. Toxic managers are often abusive, manipulative, dishonest, unethical, incompetent, or indifferent to the well-being of their subordinates. They may use fear, intimidation, humiliation, micromanagement, favoritism, scapegoating, gaslighting, or other tactics to control, exploit, or undermine their employees. A toxic management culture can also be characterized by a lack of communication, feedback, recognition, support, trust, transparency, accountability, or collaboration among managers and employees. Continue reading
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As our society becomes more and more digital, more connected, and all of us become more comfortable with technology, the stark contrast that we see between our digital personal lives and the wasteland that we encounter at work is growing. We social network on Facebook and Twitter, we share pictures with family and friends on Flickr, and through email we all write to one another far more often than we wrote letters to one another twenty years ago. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the software we use in our personal lives is easier and more pleasant to use than anything we have to interact with at the office.