Dealing with negative attitude at Workplace

Why people are more bothered about 'dealing' with negative attitude only at “workplace”, is just because it affects material aspect of life(Survival). At home, it does affect, but there are no laws which are enforceable. Just tolerate to the “maximum” possible extent. After that, part ways. One cannot divorce a job that easily. Attrition rate worries the employers only because there are laws in place which make it difficult to fire the inefficient ones! So, the efficient ones who leave, are the result of that worry, not the cause of worry. Now, when there is a sudden increase of inefficient ones (due to any reason, not just lack of skill, job-specific-qualification, or so...), the possibility of negative tendencies to overpower the inter-personal-relationship , increase. The results are obvious. It affects the management from productivity point of view, and the workers from emotional point of view. The emotion-related results cause irrepairable damage to individuals. That is when a question such as this comes up.

(My sole question on Yahoo Answers finds one link amongst many other aspects, to this question. We as emotional beings find it helplessly necessary to carry the 'residue' of what happens at home, work place, and the outside world everywhere we go! So it has to affect our over-all performance in life itself!).

Here, we shall try to restrict our observations to confine to the area demarcated 'question-specific'.

psn(17^th June, 2011)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/answer?qid=20110616092436AAdET4o

Can you change a persons bad attitude especially in job place.?

I have aLady in ma Work place, she has a negative attitude in such a way that she is un-touchable.
Is there away she can change her attitude?

My answer:

Attitude is a very personal thing.

Can we change the patriotism of people like "Bhagat Singh"?

Even today, politicians find it difficult to discourage the famous person trying to go on fast against corruption!

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We are at a "work-place" only to work. Because, we need money(salary), and that comes only if we work. Now, if the employer is intelligent, he may extract more work for less pay. That itself keeps a struggle on an on-going basis.

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Amongst the 'workers', having 'settled' down for a work, nothing stops them from 'relating' to each other. On the other hand, very few are capable of holding back their "emotional" needs, till they return home. At workplace, the relationship is purely logical. At home, the relationship is purely emotional. If logic enters home-relationship, the possibility of a quarrel is greater. conversely, if emotion overpowers at workplace, productivity is going to be affected further (this "further" can be positive or negative, depending upon what kind of relationship these emotional bonds turn out to be!).

Some kind of jobs demand a little bit of emotional relationship. Like fire fighting, army job, medical field etc. Team spirit depends upon the emotional attitude. Rules at workplace try to minimise the dependence on emotional disposition of a worker. That is why, sometimes, an emotionally unstable person can churn out good results when left alone to perform at a workplace with least dependence on others around.

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The question (THIS question) arises, because, we as human beings cannot remain like robots at all the times, (indifferent to the attitude of others, especially negative attitude). All we can do is to maintain the "awareness" about the very nature of emotional attitude, its importance, its validity in the given situation, and try to keep our own stability within us (not allowing the situation outside to affect our inside-emotions). Over a period of time, the other person may realise the futility of such negative attitude and may refrain from exhibiting (if unable to transforming) it.

This is what is practically possible.

(Some people, who evolve into strong emotional stability can bring positive changes in others).