Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Deflecting Dissent
No one wants to seem like they’re a difficult employee. Difficult employees (or DEs for short) are, among other things, more challenging to supervise, and therefore require more management attention than their colleagues. It’s made clear to the more complex to manage that their performance has to be phenomenal to justify all of the additional resources their supervision entails. The recent recession has shown many just how crucial individual ROI is to continued employment. One of the ways that employees can make themselves difficult is by noting issues with the physical environment in which they’re asked to work, particularly if concerns voiced can be directly tied to management goals (even vague ones such as the ever popular “increase collaboration”). DEs do things like say, out loud where others can hear, that the work they do requires concentration and is not best done in the environments provided, for example. They are …
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