Toxic Workplaces
Workplace Tox Screen
The book behind itA ten-question screening
Is it me, or is it this place?
Ten questions about where you work, drawn at random from a bank of 72. You get a toxicity index, a classification you will recognise at once, and a prescription.
About two minutes. Nothing you answer leaves this page.
How the index is read
Made to publicise Toxic Workplaces: Diagnosis and Remediation by Gail M. Baxter, a book that argues at some length against scoring workplaces out of a hundred.
Question 1 of 10
Classification
Panel results
Each reading rests on one or two questions. Culture surveys have been built on less.
Findings of note
A note on method. The book this page advertises contains fourteen diagnostic tools and is firm that none of them should produce a score. Its author calls the toxicity index “an exercise in false precision”. This page calculated one from ten answers. Treat the number accordingly and the reading list seriously.
If the questions landed closer to home than a joke should, write down what happened, with dates, and tell one person you trust. In Great Britain, Acas gives free, confidential advice about problems at work.
