Workplace Issues

Dealing with Workplace Issues

Below you’ll find the posts from Elephants at Work from the Workplace Issues category. You spend more than half your life in the workplace. It is important to have a positive workplace environment and it takes each of us to do our part.

Some of the topics included in the Workplace Issues category include:

  • Difficult people at work
  • Team effectiveness
  • (Un)ethical behavior
  • Bad work behaviors – gossip, bullying, harassment, mistrust
  • Getting along with your boss
  • Work relationships
  • Multi-generational challenges

You will find additional information on to talk to HR at Inside HR or see what you might be able to do differently through developing Your Personal Effectiveness.

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Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Bullying by bosses in the workplace exists. Today, we’ll discuss how to know if your boss is bullying you or a co-worker in a team or group setting and what you can do about it. What does Bullying look like? If you were to ask someone if they know what bullying looks like, you might get a wide number of examples. However, bullying can be difficult to define. Here are some situations where your boss’s actions may in fact be bullying. Your boss: Ignores your suggestions or ideas. Ridicules or makes you a butt ...

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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes The circle of work harassment continues to get wider each day – cyber-bullying is making its way into organizations and not everyone is prepared to handle it. Not too long ago, harassment cases that Human Resources or managers dealt with were verbal or physical harassment that occurred during working hours and on work premises. After a while, location became less of a factor and harassment cases included employees dealing with vendors or suppliers offsite or other company sponsored events. Today the scope of harassment broadens as the world becomes more global and technology pushes ...

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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes This is a story of Alice. She is an assistant retail store manager and she has a handicap. Alice has multiple sclerosis (MS). Her disability is not clear even though she has had it for many years. She fights it daily and she tries not to let it show. If you looked at Alice you would see a fit woman in her late 40′s. Staying healthy by working out – this is one of the ways she has kept the disease from progressing more rapidly. She knows that stress is a trigger and her ...

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Today’s workplace is full of challenges, but none is more frustrating than working with individuals who are dramatically different than you. They either have different work ethics or just do not seem to see the world the same way you do. No matter how hard you try to get along, they just rub you the wrong way. What will it take for them to get it right? I remember hearing an old saying, “Everyone is weird but me and thee and thee is a bit weird too.” Isn’t that the truth, anyone who does ...

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Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes The culture of a team governs its effectiveness. Most teams have a culture that allows adequate performance despite many unfortunate outbreaks of tension and sometimes childish behavior. It is unfortunate that more teams do not experience the exhilaration of working in a supportive culture that produces excellent results. The methods of building teams into high performing units are well documented, but most teams do not go through the rigor required to get to that level. This paper blends well known processes with horse sense born of experience that will allow any team to perform ...

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