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Tips for Dealing With Negative Coworkers
Every negative person has a story. Don’t impact your positive outlook by listening to the stories, or reviewing the history and the background about the grievances purported to cause the negativity. You reinforce the negativity; negativity is a choice. Negativity mongers need a new job, a new company, a new career, a new outlook, or counseling. They don’t need you.

Deal with negative coworkers in these ways.

* Avoid spending time with a negative coworker.


* If you are forced, through your role in the company, to work with a negative person, set limits. Do not allow yourself to be drawn into negative discussions. Tell the negative coworker, you prefer to think about your job positively. Avoid providing a sympathetic audience for the negativity.


* Suggest the negative person seek assistance from human resources or their supervisor.


* If all else fails, talk to your own supervisor or human resources staff about the challenges you are experiencing in dealing with the negative person. Your supervisor may have ideas, may be willing to address the negativity, and may address the issue with the negative person’s supervisor. Persistent negativity, that impacts coworkers’ work is a work behavior that may require disciplinary action.


* If negativity among employees in your company is persistent, if the issues that warrant negativity are left unaddressed, and the negativity affects your ability to professionally perform your work, you may want to consider moving on. Your current culture will not support your desired work environment. And, if no one is working to improve a work culture that enables negativity, don’t expect the culture to change any time soon.
Asked by Aarpit Gupta | May 10, 2012 | Report this Report abuse |  Reply now
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View Abhilasha Sharma 's Profile
Negative people tries to influence other employee in his / her own way. So don't think about them and if they are coming closure to you then always try to be creative in terms of avoiding these people.

Problem is in every organization and if you will ask then no one is satisfy so rateher than getting influenced by these kind of people think what company has done good for you
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