The organization's social environment, which consists of different types of people, may have a lot of effect on the performance of an individual. The environment may sometimes consist of people who seem to be unnecessarily nagging you and making things difficult for you for obvious or non-obvious reasons. If not handled well, these people may make you feel demotivated. This article tries to throw light on the causes and management of difficult behavior

Organizations are social units. The effectiveness of an individual in an organization, apart from his skills, resources, motivation, also largely depends upon how conducive the organizational social environment is. In organizations, there may be people who support you, encourage you and listen to you. At the same time there are people who compete with you, evaluate you, demand from you and watch you. You would be able to easily distinguish between the two categories of people as the relationship that you have with them is manifest, accepted and appreciated by both the parties.

However, there is a third category of people—the difficult-to handle people. These people may unnecessarily nag you, make fun of you, criticize you, highlight smallest of your mistakes and make them public, demotivate you and gossip about you for no evident reasons related to organizational rewards and competition. Their communication and behavior may disrupt your peace of mind which may ultimately affect your professional as well as personal life.

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