Navigating a Toxic Workplace
Navigating a Toxic Workplace For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Book • 2025
Catherine Mattice’s 'Navigating a Toxic Workplace For Dummies' offers clear, actionable advice for recognizing and responding to workplace bullying, incivility, and systemic toxicity.
Drawing on her experience as an HR leader and consultant, Mattice explains how toxic behaviors emerge, how organizations tolerate them, and what leaders, managers, HR, and individuals can do to repair harm.
The book presents tools for assessing the workplace, conducting interventions, coaching abrasive high-performers, and building systems that promote civility.
It emphasizes practical measures—listening sessions, codes of conduct, onboarding practices, and manager coaching—to replace toxicity with respectful norms.
The guide is written in accessible For Dummies style for both employees seeking help and leaders aiming to prevent and fix toxic cultures.
Drawing on her experience as an HR leader and consultant, Mattice explains how toxic behaviors emerge, how organizations tolerate them, and what leaders, managers, HR, and individuals can do to repair harm.
The book presents tools for assessing the workplace, conducting interventions, coaching abrasive high-performers, and building systems that promote civility.
It emphasizes practical measures—listening sessions, codes of conduct, onboarding practices, and manager coaching—to replace toxicity with respectful norms.
The guide is written in accessible For Dummies style for both employees seeking help and leaders aiming to prevent and fix toxic cultures.
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