The Toxic Workplace: What Happens When You're Not in the Clique
A workplace does not need an official policy of exclusion to become exclusionary. Sometimes all it requires is a clique, inconsistent leadership and a culture in which informal power goes unchallenged.
The Toxic Workplace examines the everyday mechanisms through which apparently ordinary workplaces can become divided, demoralising and dysfunctional.
Antony David Davies considers clique culture, favouritism, informal hierarchies, inconsistent management, exclusion and the consequences of leaders failing to confront behaviour that gradually becomes normalised.
The focus is not simply upon individual personalities. It is upon organisational culture, how it develops, why capable employees can become marginalised, and how tolerated behaviour can ultimately damage morale, trust and performance.
Written from the perspective of long experience in frontline organisations and management, the book combines observation with wider reflection upon leadership and institutional responsibility.
For employees and managers alike, The Toxic Workplace asks a fundamental question: when unhealthy behaviour becomes part of the culture, who has the responsibility to change it?
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