No one wants to work in a toxic workplace. Not the leaders, not the managers and definitely not the employees. But how do you know if your company’s work environment is becoming toxic?
The symptoms of a less-than-thriving organizational culture are often insidious, creeping in and slowly whittling away at everyone’s health, happiness and productivity. One-off brusque or insensitive comments turn into increasingly negative everyday interactions. Communication shortcomings sour relationships and impede progress. Mistakes are a blame game or swept under the rug.
Toxic workplace culture isn’t just something that happens to someone else. It’s a problem most people will encounter to some degree during their careers.