Do you know what it means to behave in a passive-aggressive way? Let's talk about this behavior today, and maybe you'll recognize yourself or perhaps someone you know.
The term passive-aggressive came into being during World War II, when an Army psychiatrist used it to describe soldiers who ignored or resisted orders.
According to clinical psychologist Scott Wetzler, passive-aggressive behavior is not being passive one minute and aggressive the next. It is really sugar-coated hostility, or aggression with an escape clause.
Passive-aggressive people are invariably an hour late, a dollar short and a block away, armed with an endless list of excuses to deflect responsibility. To make matters worse, they then turn the tables on you, making themselves the hapless victims of what they'll call your excessive demands and criticism. The damage they can do to your departments or teams is reflected in overall performance and organizational culture scores.
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