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Like a friend of mine said, where's the line between a totally honest and transparent workplace and a toxic workplace?
by lazyant 6y ago
Like a friend of mine said, where's the line between a totally honest and transparent workplace and a toxic workplace?
- rgoulter 6y agohttps://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html Maybe "toxic workplace" is meaningfully broader than the psychopathy described in this "sick systems". But I wouldn't jump from "totally honest and transparent" to "toxic" straightaway. Notoriously, Bridgewater aims for "totally honest and transparent" communication.. and while it's clearly not for everyone, it seems to work for them. For everyone else, clearly "safety to make mistakes" is a required condition before communication can properly be 'totally honest and transparent'. -- Otherwise, what I think you're getting at, is that "honest and transparent" whitewashes toxic political dynamics.
- ehmish 6y agoI agree with your comment, but that article you linked to it seems to have a couple of odd conclusions. It seems to be calling "keeping them emotionally involved" (using alignment of incentives) to be part of the definition of a sick system. Keeping employees emotionally involved doesn't seem to me to be a harmful thing for a workplace, or the workers themselves. Given you spend quite a lot of your waking hours working, feeling like your hard work's going to be rewarded seems like a good thing right?
- l0b0 6y agoSomeone toxic would call their behaviour "honest and transparent" to justify what they're doing, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they are intrinsically linked.
- Viliam1234 6y ago> where's the line between a totally honest and transparent workplace and a toxic workplace? As a heuristic, honest people don't keep talking about how honest they are. So if a company reminds you regularly "this is a totally honest and transparent workplace", more likely it is the latter.