Toxic Workplaces

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🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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If your workplace is toxic, can you change it? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Nicholas Pearce, an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. They talk through how to transform a toxic culture, whether you’re a junior employee, a manager, or in charge.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.1	We can do something about them.
0:25.7	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.7	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas, and with the help of experts and insights
0:33.0	from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:42.5	Today we're talking about toxic cultures with Nicholas Pierce.
0:46.6	He's an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University.
0:49.0	Nicholas, thank you so much for joining us.
0:50.7	Thank you. Glad to be with you.
0:54.2	Now, Nicholas, we're excited to have you here today because, you know, I guess you went the traditional engineer to Divinity School to leadership PhD track, you know,
0:58.7	like everyone. That's exactly right. Tell us about that. I have the opportunity as a pastor and
1:03.8	professor to serve both CEOs and those who want to be CEOs and people who are trying to get jobs in these CEOs companies, right?
1:14.7	People who are well below the poverty line and people who are flying well, well above it.
1:21.8	And in your executive coaching practice and in your church, do people complain quite a bit about bad workplace cultures
1:30.5	that they're struggling with? A lot of people don't have the vocabulary to use to point out
1:36.2	that it is culture. They point to people who are stressed or people who are leaving the organization
1:41.4	or people who are gossiping a lot or people who are just not nice.
1:46.4	And so for a lot of them, they're not able to point to it as culture.
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