#workplace-behavior

#workplace-behavior

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. We've all heard this misattributed Peter Drucker quote and instinctively understand the disproportionate influence culture can have on an organization's business. However, if you asked five people to define organizational culture, you'd likely get 55 different answers. Chief among them would be something along the lines of "organizational culture is how we do things around here," the behaviors and norms that make up how a company engages in the collective production of work.

The default setting at corporate Christmas parties is a sort of cautious politeness And lo, it was early December. And the bosses said unto the workers: A Christmas party you shall have. Fun shall be organised with your co-workers and food shall be consumed.

Across 49 studies involving almost 9,000 participants, rational persuasion was estimated to have a 7 to 12 percent relationship with achieving the desired outcome [4]. Further, if this technique has worked for you, it might be for reasons you don't expect. Research indicates that people confronted by a colleague listing reasons why he or she should do something often agree because it is highly uncomfortable to say no [5].

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit last month, he said he expects full attention from everyone in the room. "If you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you're reading your email or getting notifications, I tell you to close the damn thing," he told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell. It's disrespectful.

You know that saying, "intent is not equal to impact"? That is, just because you didn't mean to say something racist doesn't mean that what you said is not racist. It's not enough to just have good intentions-you need to actually consider the impact that your statements and actions will have on others. We can certainly take intent into consideration, but someone who repeatedly relies on having good intentions as an excuse is operating in bad faith.

When faced with failure, do you tend to react with anger or hurt? Do you get defensive, deny a role in what happened, or perhaps deny that failure even occurred? Do you slant information to avoid looking guilty, or come up with a laundry list of reasons for the failure that were outside of your control? Perhaps you try being nice with the hopes that others will overlook the failure or point their fingers elsewhere.

Sexual activity in one's workspace is typically a fireable offense in almost every employment context. If you are independently wealthy, then go for it!

Don't bite anyone at work ever again! It's a form of assault, and the fact that she thought it was OK says she probably needs some serious remedial education in how to relate to people at work.

Personality traits exist on a spectrum, and behaviors often represent normal variations rather than disorders. Understanding this helps reframe career development.

"Evolutionary psychologists have a leading theory that humans began finding revenge pleasurable as part of the ice age, as a way to cause compliance with social norms."

Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor decided that the officer's inappropriate communications warranted a final written warning instead of dismissal, acknowledging his efforts to seek help and learn from his mistakes.