Toxic organizations refer to workplaces or institutions that exhibit dysfunctional, harmful, or detrimental behaviors, practices, and cultures. These organizations tend to have elements that negatively impact the well-being, productivity, and success of their employees. In the rest of this short article, some of the defining characteristics of a toxic organization are briefly explained.
With the 2008 global financial crisis, we witnessed an increasing number of individuals and organizations questioning the accepted approaches to economic theory compared to the past; we still do. Although this questioning had never ceased, the crisis, which we always thought was distant from contemporary life, began to make itself felt in a disruptive manner with all its unpleasantness, causing even those who rarely questioned or questioned at all to pause and think. As a result, topics such as the origins and development of capitalism, new economic theories, alternative economic models, financialization, and so on, started to occupy the agenda extensively.