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What To Do If...?
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What To Do If...?

by Anne-Maartje Oud
February 2026
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
5h 42m
English
Kogan Page
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR What to do if I want to be more approachable?

Saying ‘My door is always open’ might seem like a quick fix for managers feeling that they can deal with issues among their team members, but it’s not always that simple. A troubling incident in the Netherlands saw 25 employees speaking out against a manager for bullying and creating an unsafe work environment. They all referred to it as a ‘culture of fear’. The management’s response was upsetting for some people. They emphasized that without people telling others about the culture of fear, things couldn’t be resolved and that there would have been possibilities and procedures to address the behaviour at an earlier stage so things could have been prevented.

This caused a big ...

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ISBN: 9781398626171