"The day this person left our company is considered an annual
holiday!"
This quote, taken from Kusy and Holloway's research on toxic
personalities, echoes the frustration and confusion that come from
working with or managing an extremely difficult person. Just one
toxic person has the capacity to debilitate individuals, teams, and
even organizations.
Toxic Workplace! is the first book to tackle the underlying
systems issues that enable a toxic person to create a path of
destruction in an organization, pervading others' thoughts and
energies, even undermining their very sense of well-being. Based on
all-new research with over 400 leaders, many from the Fortune 500
list, this book illustrates how to manage existing toxic behaviors,
create norms that prevent the growth or regrowth of toxic
environments, and ultimately design organizational communities of
respectful engagement.
Kusy and Holloway's research reveals the warning signs that
indicate a serious behavioral problem and identifies how this
toxicity spreads in systems with long-term effects on
organizational climate, even after the person has left. Their
two-year, cutting-edge research study provides very specific
actions that leaders need to take to reduce both the intensity and
frequency of toxic personalities at work. No other book provides
this menu of options from a systems perspective with practical
relevance in real work situations.
You'll learn how to identify the toxic personality and describe
the leader reactions and approaches that typically don't work.
Toxic Workplace! provides hands-on approaches that work with
research-based strategies at the individual, team, and
organizational level.Toxic Workplace! will provide new insights on
how leaders lead, how organizational cultures sustain themselves,
and how teams deal with toxic personalities.
About the authors:
Mitchell Kusy, PhD, is a consultant and full professor in the
graduate program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. A
2005 Fulbright Scholar in international organization development,
Dr. Kusy consults globally in strategic planning, leadership
development, 360-degree feedback, organization development, and
designing organizational communities of respectful engagement. He
is a visiting professor at several universities internationally.
Elizabeth Holloway, PhD, is a consultant and full professor in the
graduate program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. A
Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and
Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Holloway has
had more than 25 years' experience as a practitioner, educator, and
consultant with organizations, groups, and mental health clients.
She consults globally on system approaches to mentoring, coaching,
and creating organizational communities of respectful
engagement.
PUBLICATION DATE: Apr 2009
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| Toxic Workplace |
9780470424841 |
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$37.95
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