7 Books That Can Help Improve a Toxic Company Culture

Whether you’re back in the office or working from home, a toxic company culture can make you feel trapped. Maybe your overbearing boss doesn’t respect your time, maybe two of your employees just can’t get along, or maybe women and minorities don’t feel as welcome as white men.

No matter the issue, we have good news: There are steps you can take to make things better. Check out the seven remarkable reads below if you’re ready to start transforming your office culture — even if there are a few jerks in the way.

1. ‘How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace’ by Melinda Briana Epler

2. ‘Toxic: A Guide to Rebuilding Respect and Tolerance in a Hostile Workplace’ by Clive Lewis

3. ‘Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace’ by Minda Harts

4. ‘Did That Just Happen?!: Beyond Diversity ― Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations’ by Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Lauren Wadsworth

5. ‘Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans’ by David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer

6. ‘Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams’ by Stefanie K. Johnson

In this groundbreaking guide, a management expert outlines the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow — one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams that value employees’ need to belong while still being themselves.

Purchase Inclusify here!

7. ‘Business Doing Good: Engaging Women and Elevating Communities’ by Shannon Deer and Cheryl Miller

Read entire Business Insider article here

About the Author: DrStefanieKJohnson

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.