In chapter 11 we learn about the key term called climate. Climate is introduced under cultural perspective and is defined as the workplace atmosphere. It affects how employees feel and their overall mood. The cartoon above is the perfect example of what climate in the workplace can be. It represents a tense work environment where one of the females wants to speed up the meeting. This could be caused due to poor leadership or lack of communication. When the workplace climate is toxic it leads to less motivation and morale. You can see in the cartoon that the other employees are not amused with the female who’s trying to shock them into getting the meeting over with. 

This relates to my personal experience of working in a negative environment. When I used to work as a birthday party hostess my manager made the work environment quite negative a lot of the time. All of the employees had a difficult time working with her. She more often than not criticized instead of praised leaving us to feel discouraged. Even when we did our best and went above and beyond to make the clients happy she still found something to criticize. Overall, this made the workplace climate toxic and many employees left one by one. 

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