Our KYKO personality profile is not static. It is dynamic and changes with the working experiences of the organization environment.

The environment of the organization can be conducive or toxic. A conducive working environment gives pleasurable experiences to her employees and helps them to actualize in the five dimensions of KYKO personality profile while a toxic working environment gives painful experiences and deactualizes the employees’ behavior. Conducive environment reinforces the self actualizing traits. For example, an irresponsible employee can change into a responsible employee. On the other hand, a toxic organization reinforces the low self actualizing traits and develops the negative traits of the five dimensions. For example, a responsible and sensible employee can change into an irrational and irresponsible employee good at survival skills.

Factors that can contribute to a toxic environment.

Opaque Management

• Unclear vision and mission, goals, and objectives
• Badly defined systems, policies, regulations, rules
• Roles are ambiguous.
• Principles of management are violated
• Resources are idle and inefficiently used.
• Disruption of unity of command
• People can get away cheating and not doing work

Boss

• Boss who plays favoritism. This may even be in a broad form, e.g. having a preference for the line over the staff functions or vice versa
• Boss does not give recognition for performance
• Boss claims credit for subordinate’s achievement
• Boss censors the good performance of the employee to the higher management
• Boss breaks employee’s self-esteem
• Boss fails to give clear instructions and directions
• Boss withholds vital information from the employee, which information is vital for the efficient performance of the job
• Boss blames employee if things go wrong
• Boss says one thing and does another - i.e. there is no congruency between what is said and what is done
• Boss is not decisive - subsequently employee does not have a sense of direction
• Boss plays “God” with the performance appraisal - they are subjective
• Boss delegates responsibility without the authority to act - curtailing the employee’s self-esteem

Company Policies

• Win-lose policies
• Centralization of power
• Creating privileged groups in the organization
• Closed door policy
• Poor fringe benefits
• Too much red tape

Working Conditions

• Hot and noisy working environment
• Unsafe work conditions
• Dirty work environment
• Insufficient resources
• Old technology
• Old machinery

Interpersonal Relationships

• Unhealthy politicking
• Lack of cooperation among workers
• Back stabbing
• Empire building
• Rumor mongering
• Alienation
• Mistrust
• Sabotage

Pay

• Pay below the market rate