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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Red Flags of Low-Morale – Part 2 (May 2024)

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Earlier this month I shared quantitative data from my latest Data Collection Project focusing on how people identify, respond to, and learn from red flags they observed in organizations. View the inaugural quantitative data. This report follows the first part, offering qualitative data from the participant group (N=20).  Share details about the experience: “During the […]

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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Red Flags of Low-Morale – Part 1 (May 2024)

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Last month I started another Data Collection Project created to learn more about how people identify, respond to, and learn from Red Flags they observed or experienced while job-hunting or after joining a new organization. This inaugural report will offer two parts – this first part shares quantitative data, and a second part will summarize

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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Leaving Leadership Roles due to Low Morale – Part 2 (September 2023)

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This is part two of a two-part report sharing the initial data from my data collection project about about how formal library leaders decided to leave a workplace where they were experiencing low morale. The first part of this report shared quantitative data. This second part offers selected qualitative data (n=51). Briefly share the tipping

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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Leaving Leadership Roles due to Low Morale – Part 1 (August 2023)

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Late last year I began a data collection project connected to my work focusing on the low-morale experiences of formal library leaders. Specifically, I created the project to learn more about about how formal library leaders decided to leave a workplace where they were experiencing low morale. In this first part of a two-part report,

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Data Collection Brief Update: Job-Hunting during Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (April 2023)

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This report update shares qualitative responses of from my job hunting during low-morale experiences data collection project. View earlier qualitative responses here and here, and view Part 1 of this latest update here. If you haven’t started looking for a job yet, how have your job search concerns impacted your daily work? “It is difficult

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Data Collection Brief Update: Job-Hunting during Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (April 2023)

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In March 2021 I shared an update of my ongoing data collection project on how job-hunting is impacted by low-morale experiences. Specifically, the survey explores the impact and outcomes of the job-seeking process while also dealing with the cognitive, mental, emotional, and physical health tolls of workplace abuse and neglect.  You may also review the initial

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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (March 2023)

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Since Fall of 2021 I’ve been tracking formal leaders’ experiences with Legacy Toxicity, and earlier this month I shared the inaugural quantitative dataset for this ongoing data collection project. In this post, I’m sharing qualitative data from the survey (n=53). These are selected responses from two open-ended questions asking participants to offer contextual information about

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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (February 2023)

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For the past few years I’ve been considering something I call Legacy Toxicity: the dysfunctional environment inherited by a person who assumes a leadership position in a toxic organization or group. Such toxicity may not be effectively mitigated due to the previous incumbent’s role in a) engaging in or perpetuating abuse/neglect, b) already exhausting avenues

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Data Collection Brief Update: Share Your Story (September 2022)

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I continue collecting low-morale experience narratives from people who work in various types of library workplaces. Below are updated data (n=127). You may also review an earlier report of this dataset. 37% of respondents are experienced librarians/archivists; 26% are mid-career librarians/archivists; 31% are new librarians/archivists. 64% are currently dealing with low-morale. 35% of these incidents

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Inaugural Data Collection Brief: Low Morale at Unionized Library Workplaces – Part 2 (August 2022)

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In an earlier post, I shared the latest quantitative data from my data collection project on the role/impact of library/organization unions during low-morale experiences. This post shares qualitative data from the project (n=26). (52% of respondents did not report instances of abuse or neglect to their union rep). If you did not report the abuse,

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