By Alex Fradera Incivility is the mucus of the workplace. Cruel remarks, condescension and cutting people out of conversations are sufficiently low-level acts that they are rarely sanctioned formally, yet acts of rudeness still spread around an organisation “like catching a cold“, clogging up the smooth running of an organisation. But why does the sneezing start in the first place? A new articl...
When and why does rudeness sometimes spread round the office?
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BPS membership
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Belonging to the British Psychological Society is an integral part of being a professional psychologist and our different grades of membership cater for those who have accredited qualifications or are pursuing an accredited psychology training route as well as those who have an interest in psychology but have no applicable qualifications. There are many different benefits of belonging to the So...
Leicester's lesson in leadership
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A leader is not 'the special one', but 'the one who makes us special', argue S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher. The one most important word: 'We' And the least important word: ‘I’ “Idea 42: A very short course on leadership” (Adair, 2009, p.101) It is probably in our history classes at school that we are first exposed to the idea of leadership. And, most likely, this encounter serves...