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And then there are psychopathic workplaces where management hires anxious and vulnerable employees in order to maintain their own sense of dominance over those
by ChuckMcM 4y ago
And then there are psychopathic workplaces where management hires anxious and vulnerable employees in order to maintain their own sense of dominance over those who work for them. I talked with a managerial candidate once who considered this a "good strategy" because "you can make them work 80 hrs a week and they won't complain".
At the end of that interview I wasn't sure if I should call social services or not. It was pretty deeply unsettling for me.
- ikekkdcjkfke 4y agoWell a slave needs a slave driver, there's a place for everything
- xyzelement 4y agoThat sounds horrible. And very likely not totally uncommon. But I think that's orthogonal to whether hiring crazy people makes other people in your company crazier.
- ChuckMcM 4y agoTrue, was responding to the comment more than the article. That "morale" is contagious does not seem to me to be a particularly surprising finding. Nor that a person's mental health can affect their working relationship with someone and that person's mental health. Anyone who has lead groups of people gets an intuitive sense of that pretty quickly. And I think the author is trying to put that intuition on a more reasoned footing, which I think is a good effort, but mental health is rather hard to measure quantitatively so it resists this form of analysis pretty strongly.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoOne can make a good case that in the long run everyone is better off with workers rights. The bullying that is so prevalent in the US workplace is deeply unhealthy and at the end of the day, damaging to productivity.