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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Nurturing workplace more productive Mean bosses can make for a toxic workplace. Numerous research has come out since the economic recession dealing with the dynamics of the workplace. The research has taught us that we have to change the way we work. An industrial psychologist William F. Baker, who wrote the bookā€”Leading with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Resultsā€” argues a pervasive, toxic work culture contributed to the economic meltdown. "Many people, even at the top of the financial world, say they didn't know what was going on," Baker recently told PBS' Charlie Rose. And bullying bosses, brutal hours and eat-what-you-kill compensation practices didn't exactly contribute to open communication. Bosses really can and do make a big difference in employeesā€™ lives. "The way we lionize evil bosses (think The Devil Wears Prada) is unhealthy," Baker says. "Long term, you don't get anything out of people with fear. It's kindness that maximizes results. Employees want to know how they'll be held accountable. And they'll work hard if they feel they're being treated fairly." Many of the directors of organizations that appear in the Macleanā€™s magazineā€™s Top-100 Canadian employers list seem to be doing things right. One example is managers of Tamm Communications who ask for the views of the entire staff, even the receptionists, on ad campaigns. The above treatment of employees is something that you do not see in Canadian universities, who abide by a strict hierarchy. For instance, sessional lecturers who teach 50% of courses, are usually excluded from departmental meetings and dismissed as sub-academics by their professional peers. Baker says, "Employees don't thrive without mentors they can trust and believe in." One of my best mentors was a British editor who was famously plain-spoken. He once told an employee he looked like a "f------ lumberjack" on casual day. But he was accessible, didn't hide behind e-mails and you always knew where you stood. You could disagree -- even fight -- with him about a story. But the resulting dialectic helped many of us hone our craft. It is time for workplaces to embrace collegiality, openness and kindness! 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