It’s hard not to notice when a toxic coworker comes barreling through the office door. However, that’s the least frequent part of a workplace dynamic. Bad boss behavior is much more common than you ...

Mita Mallick knows bad bosses. Through her previous roles in marketing and HR, Mallick experienced a wide range of toxic boss behavior, not limited to yelling, micromanaging, gossiping, taking credit ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Percy is a U.K-based leadership and management journalist. Toxic workplaces are bad for business. In fact, research by ...

At one point or another, most of us have encountered or will encounter a toxic employee in our workplace—even if we don’t immediately recognize or identify the behaviors in question as such.

Horrible bosses − the ones who lose their temper, shout at subordinates and berate their work − are bad for everyone. A team of researchers decided to find out why. Here’s what they found: Many toxic ...

A toxic job should be avoided at all costs because the longer you are stuck in a stressful, backstabbing orexploitativework culture, the harder it is to escape it. “Once you start working for a toxic ...

With employers doing year-end reviews, there is often a focus on revenues, accomplishments, and uplifting team stories. However, what leaders don’t see or may choose not to see can be harming their ...

Toxic workplaces are, sadly, all too common. I should know — I’ve been in three in the last decade. I realize that in our culture, there is a temptation to call everything toxic, diminishing the ...

Let’s face it. Every workplace is full of organizational politics – people trying to get ahead, to get an advantage. The competitive workplace compels us to engage in self-serving behavior as we ...

The second article in this two-part series looks at how employees can best handle a toxic boss, and how employers can and should intervene if they spot trouble. Sadly, most people have worked under a ...