Dysfunctional organizations exist as a result of the behavior of individuals in those organizations as well as the culture permeated by that behavior (Lagios, Nguyen, Stinglhamber, and Caesens 2022; Alemu 2016; Griffin, O’Leary-Kelly, and Collins 1998). The behavior leading to the dysfunction generally results from forms that violate accepted norms in the workplace and comes in several forms and goes by many names—bullying, harassment (verbal, racial, sexual, sexual orientation, gender, religious, physical, ability-based, age-based), abuse, blaming, criticism, gaslighting, judging, name-calling, threatening, lying, retaliation, mobbing, intimidation, and more. Almost a third of adult Americans (30%) indicate that they have directly experienced ...
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