What are your assumptions about difficult people at work? Considering their possible motivations can change your perspective.

If you have ever walked out of a meeting questioning your memory, your judgment, or even your value, you are not alone. You might be experiencing gaslighting or passive-aggressive behavior at work.

You walk into the office and are greeted with smiles, small talk, and compliments. It seems like everyone is warm and approachable — a dream work environment. But as time passes, the cracks begin to ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

We've all come across those articles, haven't we? The ones that promise a complete transformation in just 30 days if we adopt a new routine. Or the five-step guides to breaking some pesky habit. While ...

Louise Crowley has received funding from the Irish Higher Education Authority and the Irish Research Council. The average person will spend more than 3,500 days at work, so toxic behaviour in the ...

Zhanna Lyubykh receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Laurie J. Barclay receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...

Traditional professionalism often enforces dominant cultural norms, forcing employees to suppress their identities and creating "identity strain." This stifles diversity, innovation, and psychological ...

Through a relentless focus on results at any cost and no consequences for the use of aggressive and abusive tactics to achieve them, our corporations inadvertently encourage bullying and other forms ...

Recent rollbacks to company diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives appear to be affecting women, including their career plans and subsequent job behavior, according to a Women in the Workplace ...