Civility and Respect towards Employees

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Research on Civility by Christine Porath revealed that the 20,000 respondents (employees from all over the world) ranked "respect" as the most important leadership behavior. However these same 20,000 respondents also report disrespectful and uncivil behavior is increasing each year! Porath's quite current book in these times of President Trump shows what incivility is costing organizations in an entertaining mix of statistical data and anecdotal evidence about the cost and reward to incivil and civil behavior. While some of the civility strategies discussed in the book could be considered somewhat basic (Say please and thank you, Don't interrupt, Share credit, Ask questions rather than barking orders), a surprising amount of leaders, managers, and organizations don't always practice them 😉. According to Kristy Rogers, the main reason for this remarkable disconnect” between the importance and current practice of respect is that some managers could be unaware o (...) Read more? Sign up for free

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		KOEHL Maryse, Professor, France
	Respect in Organizations Interesting this approach of owed respect and earn (...)

		srinivas, Lecturer, India
	Owed Respect in Recogntion of Potential If one recognizes the potential of each employee ( (...)

		Ivan Kohlinsky, Management Consultant, United Kingdom
	Don't we Expect This Universally? Isn't it that the respect that we should give and (...)

		Steven Cooke
	What Causes the Lack of Civility/Respect? As noted in the examples for each type, a general (...)

		Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
	Civility and Respect Towards Employees A bit of a chicken and egg problem; is civility an (...)

		Riphagen, Financial Consultant, Netherlands
	Respect in Times of Radical Change What if one wants to increase the performance of a (...)

		Emmanuel Rasesia, Teacher, Botswana
	Owed Respect versus Earned Respect Thanks for providing the distinction between the t (...)

		Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
	Respect Towards Employees is not a Means to an End I believe that respect comes from the inside out - (...)

		Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany
	The Importance of Respect in Organizations and Society If you want to be heard you must pay respect to ot (...)

		Steven Cooke
	Sincerity / Respect is not a Method @: That's a VERY pertinent and important point in (...)

		Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
	Is Respect Innate or Acquired? @: Thanks for your contribution to this topic. I a (...)

		Steven Cooke
	Acquiring Respectability @: I agree that some people are unfortunately def (...)

		Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
	Recognition Shows Respect How do we show respect towards and employee? Thro (...)

		Bill Boynton, Teacher, United States
	New Operating Norm I believe the value of respect is a critical compo (...)

		Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
	Respect is Earned not Owed Replace “respect” with “civility”; the messages ar (...)

		Steven Cooke
	Civilization and Honor @: I agree that there is a necessary but subtle di (...)

		Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
	Civility and Respect Towards Employees Here's an article I've written quite recently and (...)

		Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
	Respect Dissed @: Yes. It seems also to be demonstrated by gang l (...)