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https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html Maybe "toxic workplace" is meaningfully broader than
by rgoulter 6y ago
https://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?