![]() ![]() Refusal to follow policies unless it suits the business.It could be intentional and therefore far more serious. We should not assume this is down to a lack of management skills. A reluctance to minute meetings or draw-up file-notes.This may be with immediate line management in a one-on-one relationship or it may be at Corporate level involving an entire Executive Board and/or a business owner. Spotting the signs of Gaslighting is easier than you might think. It’s an entirely unacceptable, subtle, management style. However, Gaslighting may be cultural ie: from the top down, condoned at Corporate management level. A perpetrator could be a co-worker or a line manager. It’s a manipulate power-game, which individuals or groups of individuals play within a workplace with deliberate intent to control an individual or control a situation. They may even be signed off work by their GP with work-related stress. ![]() Their confidence and productivity levels suffer. All the employee knows is they feel constantly undermined or excluded and they start to develop trust issues within the workplace. Typically, an employee cannot ‘put their finger on the problem’. An employee who is the subject of gaslighting will likely, certainly initially, struggle to understand what is occurring – similar to Bergman’s character in the film. Psychologists describe Gaslighting as a subtle but unhealthy manipulative behaviour. Her husband convinces her that she is imaging things, when in fact he is scheming with criminal intent. Bergman’s character marries and mysterious things start to happen to her in her marriage. The term Gaslighting is based on a 1944 film ‘Gaslight’ starring Ingrid Bergman. ![]() Historically, we have described these practices as ‘subtle workplace bullying’. Sadly, these unacceptable practices are commonplace. The term Gaslighting is a ‘label’ which embraces a cocktail of inappropriate and often manipulative workplace practices. ![]()
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