Characteristics of the bullying-prone workplace Making the numbers, an obsession with outcomes is uncritically adopted Recruitment, promotion, and reward systems focus on individuals strength of personality or interpersonal aggressiveness while ignoring emotional intelligence Short-term planning, e.g., to meet quarterly investor projections, governs operations Internal conduct codes limit prohibitions to narrowly defined illegal incidents Executives give higher priority to personal friendships than to legitimate business interests Fear is a dominant, desired workplace emotion, whether deliberately engineered or inadvertently created Misuse of performance appraisal processes occur with impunity SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.
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