5 ways leaders manage toxic work environments

1. A toxic employee

Toxic employees can bring everyone down. If they’re not contributing enough work to the team, it can impact the ethic and morale of colleagues.

To mitigate against this, David Williams, CEO of software company, Fishbowl, proposes a solution at the interview process.

As reported in The Telegraph, Williams screens candidates for what he calls "the seven non-negotiable qualities to prevent a bad hire". These consist of respect, belief, loyalty, commitment, trust, courage and gratitude.