Sunday, October 21, 2018

How to deal with Passive- aggressive colleagues

Durga K NAIR, IUEf Educator, National Joint Secretary IUEf for Pooma Educational Trust
Aggression:
Aggressive behavior is a type of behavior where people attempt to stand up for themselves or exert power over others in ways that are hostile and violate the rights of others. Aggression in the workplace is increasingly recognized as a serious problem, but there are few studies about worker aggression toward outsiders in the workplace. Occupational stress such as role conflict and role ambiguity was associated with aggression among teachers. It is necessary to reduce problems which relates to role conflict and role ambiguity for preventing teachers' aggression.
Passive- aggression:
Aggressive behaviors differ from passive aggressive behaviors, which seek to disguise feelings of anger in that they are usually intentional and meant to harm someone, either psychologically or physically, or destroy someone's belongings. It is characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation
What are the best ways to deal with passive-aggressive colleagues?
If the aggressor is a colleague who works near you, ask if you can be transferred to another space in your workplace so you don't have to be around the person all the time. That might take care of the problem. If you cannot be moved, you can do your best to interact only minimally with the individual.
The most effective approach is to ignore the behavior and pretend you don't notice it. If it doesn't appear to affect you, there is not much in it for them, and they may stop the behavior because of your lack of a reaction.
When ignoring passive-aggressive behavior is not feasible, perhaps because it strongly affects you psychologically, the best you can do is to maintain distance from the person as much as possible.
It is much more necessary that every interaction should be professional and to the point, which will deter the aggressor from escalating.
“Aggression tends you depression”
Have a healthy work area with positive environment!

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