Introduction :
The primitive concept of ‘Toxic real Estate’ explains it to underperforming assets that needs attention of management. But through this conceptual paper authors add to the new concept of “toxicity” in the field of corporate real estate. They are of the view that the work environment of the employees has a positive or negative impact on their state-of-mind as well as their job productivity. The sources of toxicity can vary from physical dimensions of office, communication gaps, lack of personal privacy or technological backwardness but repercussions could be from psychological (e.g: stress, anxiety), Sociological (e.g: negative impact on group interactions) as well as physical well being (e.g: asthma) of employees.
Purpose
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b) Toxic employee behaviours ‘spawned’ in toxic workplaces: authors identifies two dysfunctional behaviours as Bullying and destructive leadership. Research suggests that Bullying occurs when there is extensive change or disruptions to the environment or employees with low level of autonomy and personal privacy. Destructive leaders place their goals , ambitions above those of organisation.
c) Evaluative framework for the potential impact of toxic: the authors amicably discuss various stages of environment audit that need to be conducted in a form of a flow chart.
Stage I. Support of top management team relative to value/importance of the audit of toxic environments.
Stage II. Inventory of potential external /internal environmental
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Design of audit teams.(people that have proficiency, organisational credibility, decision making authority, and willingness to work on very negative issue of toxic real estate.
Stage V. collection of data on the physical environment.(i.e an objective ,systematic and comprehensive collection process)
Stage VI. Comparison of findings with past audits.
d) Mediating TOXIC workplace : the authors suggests prime remedy to avoid creating toxic environment in the workplace. the audit trails should be followed for new setup as well. They further suggests that feedbacks from existing clients/employees proves invaluable in eliminating the barriers to toxicity. A feedback mechanism of property improvement suggestions can be instituted for the employees. This could be value for money approach for treating toxicity in the workplace.
Findings
– This research paper argued that there is a relationship between physical workplace and the social behaviour of employees. Two dysfunctional social behaviours crop up from toxic workplace and are highlighted, i.e. bullying and destructive leadership. The authors have presented logical plan to examine and remediate these “TOXIC” conditions in the physical
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