Wage war in the office

    Klaus

November 12, 2007 by Klaus  
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I have written about this topic several times. I observed during the last years also here in the Philippines a dramatic increase of “wars at the working place”.

We spend more time with colleagues than with our partners and families, if we don’t have the chance to earn by working at home. Even if this, there are always people outside, who get jealous and try to destroy your name and you reputation.

Back to the war in the office: we have a lot of occasions to commit and experience conflicts, disagreements, disputes, fights, rivalries, intrigues up to psychological terror. The war-like arguments claim more and more victims. People consider no sacrifice too great to act as tyrants, intriguers, schemers and careerists while stopping at nothing. The scapegoats as well as the plotters can be found anywhere up to the executive floors, no matter if it’s an ordinary company or church-based or government-based institutions.

Clever-dicks and hypocritical such as nice acting mask wearers, in all modesty, are the decline of every enterprise. Management consultants and doctors, worldwide, and also here in the Philippines, observe such phenomena in rapid rising. Wherever human beings have to cooperate and coordinate (also outside an office), one can find different matters of opinions, That’s okay. But the daily psycho stress makes body, mind and soul sick. It’s the poisonous atmosphere caused by colleagues (or the boss him- or herself). The principal of making the polluter pay is so simple: well-considered good conduct by being kindly disposed towards someone but later a terrible back fighter, who enjoys any kind of gossip and harassment.

In Western countries, we call it “mobbing”, a technical term coming from “mob”, or “pack of hounds”. In executive floors it was named witty as “bossing”, because adversaries and opponents prosper also here. The worse working place conditions the more sick workers: a very simple explanation. But, progressive enterprises and institutions reorganize or remodel themselves. “Management By Love” instead of oppression and modern slavery are the magic formulas. Quarrelsomeness, allowed or even supported by the management forces only one thing: the economically bankruptcy and the bankruptcy of moral values. Such kinds of war happened also many times between friends or even expats, originally coming from the same country.

Do we really need to do such things because only to satisfy our sphere of influence or win a not necessary struggle of power???

About the Author:  Klaus is from Germany, but has been living in the Philippines since the late 1990’s. Klaus is a journalist by trade, having written for a number of newspapers, studied also Publishing House Management and Marketing and has also been a Radio Host here in the Philippines.