From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Better than Sex?Hooked on Work—at the Toxic Workplace

摘要

The previous editorial included comments on the potential for increase in bullying,mobbing, incivility, and other nastiness emerging in organizational life. I framed this asbeing potentially worsened as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) deepens and bothindividuals and organizations begin to feel the "pinch"—the bite that inevitablyaccompanies financial problems. Since then, I have remembered that many of ourworkplaces are already toxic, and create toxic emotions at work (Frost 2003). Theseworkplaces don't need the GFC to help things along.