siliconindia | | January 20218In FOCUSALTERNATE REALITIES ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AT WORKPLACEBY si TEAMMost parenting styles revolve around teaching their children values, which are self loathing that is majority of the parents believe that if a child risks his or her life, trying to achieve something remarkable, they fear that a sense of failure or a sense of shame might forever stain their selfimage. And this learning has been imbibed by so many individuals since childhood that people often at workplace feel discouraged to take up any daunting task.Self image is that mental picture, which does get better with age and experience. Rather selfgrowth determines self image and it only improves as and when an individual meets the hunger pangs of his self conflicts.A person is bound to experience humiliation, loss of pride and some times fail to conform to the standards of his own morality, during the tenure of his professional career. But that should not stop any individual from exploring his areas of work interests instead workplaces should inherit the idea of accepting and respecting its employees, irrespective of whatever the consequence might be.Psychological safety plays a significant role at any workplace it increases work effectiveness and enables teams and organizations to learn and perform well in terms of leadership and innovation.However, the real picture at organizations narrates a blurred representation of the relationship between employers and employees.Modern day self-introspection and self-validation depends on how harshly one has been judged by his or her employer in the devil's room! There at times, when no choice of creativity is allowed at a workplace.Often employees are made to follow a certain restricted pattern ofworking where your inputs or suggestions don't count.Employee attitudes are clearly important to the organizations. And this often determines job satisfaction. Data studies reveal that 20 percent of them agreed to be satisfied with their jobs while the other 80 percent expressed dissatisfaction. The other questions that followed on in the Times Jobs survey of 1,100 working professionals were:The aftermath of job dissatisfaction leads to employee turnover, low performance and consequently the whole team of employees gets adversely affected. And in such cases teams feel threatened rather than motivated to overcome the challenges.John Gottman's research at the University of Washington proclaims that blame and criticism, from an employer reliably escalates conflict, leading to defensiveness and eventually to disengagement. Also, there's an absence of active communication between the employer and employees, which creates distrust among individuals, thus giving birth to
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