Toxic Workplaces Are Focus of November SIOP Work Smart Series Event

Sunday Scaries. 

The term refers to the “dread and doom” an employee feels the day before work begins. This is more than a workplace trend or a generational joke. Symptoms may be physical, mental, or both. And they contribute to higher healthcare costs, lower productivity, and increased turnover.

Toxic workplaces and poor worker/workplace matches abound, and they share the result of stressed, ineffective workers; workers suffering from the Sunday Scaries. It is a topic that is relevant to too many employees, as today’s I-O professionals and HR practitioners already know.

This frequency and notoriety have made toxic workplaces the focus of the November 13 SIOP Work Smart Series event.

Is an employee experiencing those all-too-well-known Sunday Scaries? Are they in a toxic workplace, or does a better match exist for the employee’s skills and talents? Employee turnover has a high cost, as do lower productivity and increased healthcare needs. By leveraging evidence-based approaches, organizations can transform their work environments and enhance both employee well-being and organizational success.

Workshop presenters Clair Reynolds Kueny, PhD, department chair and Associate Professor of Psychological Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and C. Allen Gorman, associate professor in the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods in the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will address these topics and more in Combating the Toxic Workplace.

Chia-Lin Ho, PhD, managing principal executive coach at 3G Leadership Solutions, coordinates the workshop with Dr. Megan VanHoy, founder of Green Sky Leadership. 

Anyone experiencing or recovering from a toxic environment will want to attend the workshop, Ho said: “Join us to learn how you can promote a healthy and inclusive workplace culture, or how you may unintentionally contribute to workplace toxicity.”