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TOPIC DEFENSE MECHANISMS. Dysfunctional employee behaviors designed to compensate for personal or professional inadequacies or insecurities Psychological self-protection in the workplace. COMPENSATION
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TOPIC DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Dysfunctional employee behaviors designed to compensate for personal or professional inadequacies or insecurities • Psychological self-protection in the workplace
COMPENSATION Trying to make-up for something negative in your personal life with something positive in your professional life
CONVERSION Work → physical problems
DISPLACEMENT Taking out your anger at person A on person B
FANTACIZING Living in a daydream world
FIXATION It hurts so good
IDENTIFICATION Success by proxy
FLIGHT Escaping reality frivolously
NEGATIVISM Mask for idealism & coping with disappointment
RATIONALIZATION Salving our conscience
WITHDRAWAL Protective cocooning
OD #1. RODERICK WELLER HomefareStores warehouse maintenance supervisor
Spends lunch hour talking to employees about dept. conflicts (fixation) Loses his temper and fires someone; justifies it on grounds that the employee commuted a long distance to work each day (rationalization)
Skips out of warehouse when things get especially hectic & stressful (flight) Sometimes goes home early with a bad headache after conflict episodes (conversion)
Yells at forklift operators whenever one of their buddies misses work (displacement) Talks about winning the bowling league at least once a day (fantasy)
Takes up the same hobbies as Jackie, the warehouse manager (identification)