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organizational toxicity  

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  • Organizational toxicity is the widespread, intense, energy-sapping, negative emotion that disconnects people from their jobs, coworkers, and organizations. Painful emotions that are inevitably part of organizational life become toxic when others respond to them in harmful and destructive ways. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Organizational Toxicity]

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