According to new mag, If your management focuses solely on what employees are doing wrong, you may be working for a toxic company.

Do you work in a toxic workplace?

In his book, Eye of the Storm: How Mindful Leaders Can Transform Chaotic Workplaces, executive coach Ray Williams describes the characteristics of toxic workplaces, and the part that dysfunctional leaders play in creating them. As he writes in Psychology Today, toxic workplaces will manifest in the following seven ways:



1. All sticks and no carrots

Management focuses solely on what employees are doing wrong or correcting problems, and rarely give positive feedback for what is going right. Or mostly carrots for the best performers, sticks for the rest.

2. The creeping bureaucracy

There are too many levels of approval and management to get things done and a singular focus on micromanaging employees.

3. The gigantic bottom line

Profits, beating the competition, and cost cutting are solely focused on without consideration of other bottom lines.

4. Bullies rule the roost

Management bullies employees, or tolerates bullying when it occurs among employees.

5. Loss of the human touch

People are considered to be objects or expenses rather than assets, and there is little concern for their happiness or well-being. There’s also little evidence of leaders’ compassion and empathy for employees. As a result, you’ll encounter high levels of stress, turnover, absenteeism, and burnout.

6. Internal competition

Employees must compete internally, which is enforced by a performance assessment system that focuses on individual performance rather than team performance.

7. Little or no concern for work-life balance

People’s personal or family lives must be sacrificed for the job; overwork or workaholism is commonly evidenced by 50-hour-plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication. There is little or no commitment to making contributions to the community, worthy causes, or making the world a better place.

True.Toxicity get level sef

Nice

Is that all

the best thing to do is to create one's work-space if you want to totally avoid all this point raise by OP.

hmmm

if na so, nobody go work for naija

Banking is very toxic

Atleast toxic environment prepares you for future encounters in future roles and build your resolve in dealing with fellow colleagues

Very correct op

All hood

Right.

I can relate but no one gives a rat's arse about how comfy you are at work.
This write up na for them Europeans and North Americans.

fakuta:
Is that all

You can add your own

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Most of the one line comments are clear indications that most don't understand or cannot relate with the op

True.

Number 6 is currently happening to me. My boss is doing some ridiculous assessment on some unreasonable targets. I cannot kill myself.

Jesus I have read through. Mine is heavily toxic.

I mean very toxic o...

Really

happy birthday to me. my likes please

Was i the only one expecting to see some toxic chemicals?

RETIREDMUMU:
is it only me dat doesn't get a dime this yeye op wrote up there

Yeap you are d only that couldnt get anything from this write-up, as u can see from other comments. I think u need to read it again but now slowly so as to understand it.

The world itself is toxic

Sounds like the godamn company I worked for, for 2 months. Ended in shambles, because my type of person... Shoo, I still wanna see the managements and curse TF outta their lives. Bad Balosh

I can relate... Marketting world... You just get yabbed anyhow... They really don't wanna know how hard you work... All they care is bring in money!!... It's only the inflow that can show how hard you work.. No inflow.. You ain't working... It's just so toxic.. I really wanna quit!!!... Always afraid to go to work.... To burst your bubbles... Theres no basic salary!!!!... You get payed on percentage and yet they still scrutinize!!.... Now I have made up my mind that i will go to work only when I get Inflow or better still I just quit and face another direction...... It ain't worth it!!

you forget office politics

True talk. Such places are common nowadays.