Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition
by Sharon Lund O’Neil, Elwood N. Chapman
The Hypothesis in Practice
It is hoped that the preceding discussion has given you a good understanding of the frustration-aggression hypothesis. To summarize, how can you put the frustration-aggression idea to work for you?
Admit that your frustrations often produce aggressive behavior of some kind and learn to recognize them. Once you recognize the frustrations that cause your aggressive behavior, you should work on ways to channel aggressive actions into acceptable outlets. Be careful to release your aggressions in the right way and in the right place. Keep from releasing them on the job in a way that will hurt relationships and your future.
Recognize aggressive behavior in others (including executives). Keep in mind that aggressive action ...
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