The High Cost of Caustic Workers

February 9, 2016
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A new Harvard Business School paper attempts to put a price on the cost of keeping toxic employees in organizations. Spoiler alert: It’s steep.

There’s been a lot of research dedicated to studying the corrosive effects that noxious employees (and boorish bosses) have on the work environments around them.

But, as economist Dylan Minor points out in a new paper, not many of these studies have focused on how much it costs companies — in actual dollars and cents — to keep these toxic workers around.

Minor and Michael Housman, chief analytics officer at Cornerstone OnDemand, sought to do just that in a new working paper from Harvard Business School. [Read More @ Human Resource Executive]

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