Why Is Respect In The Workplace Important
Why is respect in the workplace important, argued in money rather than values? Because of who leaves first.
When a team becomes unpleasant, people do not depart in order of unhappiness. They leave in order of how easily they can go. The capable, in-demand, recently-promoted people have options and use them. The people who stay longest are frequently those with the fewest alternatives.
That produces a slow inversion in capability that nobody decided and everybody notices eventually. It is also expensive twice over, since replacing an experienced person costs a multiple of their salary once recruitment, lost productivity and the ramp-up of a replacement are counted.
None of it appears as a line item called disrespect. It shows up as turnover in one team, and it is usually explained as a market issue.
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Why Respect In The Workplace Is Important
Let’s be honest. Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I can’t wait to be spoken down to at work today.” And yet, workplace disrespect is far more common than most managers would like to admit. It shows up in subtle ways, an eye roll during a meeting, a credit-stealing colleague, a manager who […]
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