Peer Pressure in the Work Place
John Layer
Peer Pressure in the Work Place
Are you part of the problem?
February 18, 2011
In the business world of today many companies spend countless time, money and wasted energy to solve and curve conflict resolution in the workplace. Does ones self-esteem of an individual have anything to do with falling into negative peer pressure in the work place? We often don’t realize that some times what we view as simple shop talk, could lead to more major problems. It doesn’t matter what type of business you’re in, nor the size company. It is equally damaging to a team’s moral and having any confidence in the organization’s mission. Especially if one is involved in role modeling for ...
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be more proactive and a well-organized group. Our problems began to arise when we split staff and cottages. A new group leader formed and he took who he wanted to work for him, to his cottage. Well before you knew it, staff began to question the group leaders’ motives they didn’t seem to fit the mold of the program. Anger turned in to resentment. Since the move took place several months ago, we now have a huge problem on our hands. The boys don’t listen to staff, and the child care workers get frustrated, leading to little trust among coworkers. It is just a big mess.
When a good thing fails, we often question our motives in why we listen to some and when we don’t. When talking about peer pressure, it either can work for us in a positive manner or it can consume us. We allow bad thing to happen to good people, causes damage to one’s scheme, and our will to succeed, (self-efficacy) is severally hampered. We have a lot of back stabbing and stereotyping going right now. The ...
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mistake how they deal with there’re employees. It is my opinion that is why they have such a high turnover right now.
First thing is first, is one of the 7 good habits of highly effective people, by the author, (Stephen R. Covey, 7 Habits, 1989). These habits are what we use for the youth to follow, in their journey to recovery. As staff at Tri-State, in order to gain back control of our current situation. We must have enough self-control to utilize such skills as think win/win, seek first, cenergize,(working together for one common goal), think end in mind(what is our main purpose) and sharpen the saw, which implies that all the good skills that we learn we must use or lose it. ...
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