Toxic Workplace!

Managing Toxic Personalities and Their Systems of Power

By: Mitchell Kusy, Elizabeth Holloway

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

"The day this person left our company is considered an annual holiday!"

This quote, taken from Kusy and Holloway's research on toxic personalities, echoes the frustration and confusion that come from working with or managing an extremely difficult person. Just one toxic person has the capacity to debilitate individuals, teams, and even organizations.

Toxic Workplace! is the first book to tackle the underlying systems issues that enable a toxic person to create a path of destruction in an organization, pervading others' thoughts and energies, even undermining their very sense of well-being. Based on all-new research with over 400 leaders, many from the Fortune 500 list, this book illustrates how to manage existing toxic behaviors, create norms that prevent the growth or regrowth of toxic environments, and ultimately design organizational communities of respectful engagement.

Kusy and Holloway's research reveals the warning signs that indicate a serious behavioral problem and identifies how this toxicity spreads in systems with long-term effects on organizational climate, even after the person has left. Their two-year, cutting-edge research study provides very specific actions that leaders need to take to reduce both the intensity and frequency of toxic personalities at work. No other book provides this menu of options from a systems perspective with practical relevance in real work situations.

You'll learn how to identify the toxic personality and describe the leader reactions and approaches that typically don't work. Toxic Workplace! provides hands-on approaches that work with research-based strategies at the individual, team, and organizational level. Toxic Workplace! will provide new insights on how leaders lead, how organizational cultures sustain themselves, and how teams deal with toxic personalities.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc (P)2012 Gildan Media

Not for individuals trying to deal with a bully

This was an outstanding book for organizations which are toxic, but I wouldn’t recommend it for individual workers who are trying to deal with a bully in their workplace. It mainly has to do with leaders and CEOs who have power to change the workplace situation. I wish the title was more reflective of that.

Excellent

This is a great beginner book for those interested in healthy workplace environments. Hope you enjoy.

Best used for the place

Every workplace should make this a mandatory reading for its leadership. This goes a long way in identifying toxic people and their behaviors. One thing I learned from this book is that toxic people can be producers and that management does not get rid of them. It is informative and worth the read.

Healthy was to manage Workplace Toxicity

The author did a good job of identifying toxic leadership, break down how to work through it, and resolve it or at least a develop a plan to mange toxicity in the workplace.

Most for toxic coworkers

Didn’t really offer a lot of this information. Didn’t Offer any information on how to deal with or help the problem