People who face low-morale often experience emotional conflict – they are generally employed in the career/industry of their choice, and they want to do their jobs well (they are often overperformers). At the same time; however, they find themselves in a tenuous position – they are being abused/neglected at work, and want relief. The resulting […]
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I think probably what was affected was the professional development aspect of it, you know the collaborative relationship that I had with [my abusive colleague] – and we did a lot of collaboration. And so [after she threw me] under the bus… I had very little contact with her, so there was less — there
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Next month I’ll be collaborating with several groups to discuss aspects of low morale and associated frameworks. Follow the links where available to learn more and/or register! October 4, 2023 | Universitas Indonesia (University of Indonesia) Library; 8;45A WIB: “Addressing Low-Morale Experience in Library and Information Workplace” October 11, 2023 | WebJunction; 3P EST: “Revitalizing
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Raymond Pun interviewed me about my survey on low morale experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (see more results here, here, and here). In this short discussion, I share the most concerning emerging data and how I hope the data will be applied in library decision-making as we move through the pandemic (and beyond). Read the
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[This content was originally published on October 15, 2018 at The Ink On The Page.] While analyzing data for my PoC academic librarians low morale study, I came across behaviors that seemed to fall under the realm of oppressed group behavior (OGB) – known more colloquially as “eating one’s young” the “one” being the profession and the
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This post is the first of a two-part series of items I’m sharing from the second session of my course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” which was offered via Library Juice Academy in May 2019. Throughout the course, students shared readings that are helping them change their work culture or better understand issues
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The 2017 low morale study was mentioned as a resource in Mirza and Currier’s Digital Libraries Forum presentation, “Towards a praxis of library documentation.” The information was shared last October. The study is noted in connection to their discussion of the American Library Association’s Code of Ethics, specifically, Principles V and VIII, which focus on
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[This content was originally published on December 4, 2017 at The Ink On The Page.] As a lurking/functional member of social media society, I have recently come across several threads in closed and open LIS online communities that prompt the following thought: Librarians need assertive communication training. I remember in library school, classroom conversations about applying
