MIT Sloan Management Review published “Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Toxic Culture.” It includes the Toxic Five Culture Attributes–worth a read and a gut check.
When I started working in the car business, my father reminded me that there was a hiring culture of, “Throw them up against the wall and see who sticks.”
Nowadays, there is probably a culture in some stores of, “Can you pee in a cup? Do you need the week to be able to pee in a cup? Please?”
Regardless, people won’t stick around if we don’t honor dignity–something we’ve talked about before here. The article can help.
It’s especially important given that our culture offers us this level of tongue-in-cheek despair. (It is tongue-in-cheeck, right?)
