As an employee, are you held accountable for work that you
are unable to do well due to mismanagement of resources and/or a lack of tools
(aka, proper technology)? Are you and your peers given directives to be
creative and innovative, yet must suppress creative ideas for fear of being
labeled “subversive” by the organization?
Your organizational culture might be codependent. The
leadership needs, yet fears, their smart, creative workers. But creativity is
not fostered because change is threatening to the comfortable status quo. Employee low morale is bad for teamwork – and
that’s the point – then leadership can blame the employees’ lack of
collaboration for the organization’s shortcomings. Over time, just like in an
abusive relationship, the employee develops self-doubt and low self-esteem.
“It’s a bit like placing a frog in a pot of
warm water that it is then set to boil. Because the temperature rises so
gradually, the frog never even realizes it’s being cooked.”
-Article about “gas lighting”<Link>
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