It is summation of intrinsic and extrinsic frustrations

December 1, 2022

The manifestations of Workplace Frustration can be seen directly in the low productivity of the employee, low enthusiasm, poor quality of work, bad mouthing about the company, poor morale, and motivation of employees and all being reflected in poor work culture in the organisation.

How do you describe workplace frustration and what can be the causes and manifestations of such frustration?

SS The definition of frustration is the feeling of irritability or anger because of the inability to achieve something. It is dysfunctional as it retards one’s performance and on the other hand at times also motivates people to take on larger challenges to change.

Workplace Frustrations are common in today’s professional life. Each one of us have some or the other frustration in our personal or professional lives. Workplace frustration is a common phenomenon among working professionals. These frustrations emanate out of various reasons which can be intrinsic or extrinsic to a professional/employee. Some of the intrinsic reasons can be not utilizing one’s potential in the current role, lack of trust with the management, not being in sync with the company’s philosophy and way of working, over-ambition, competing with peers, feeling of underemployment, insecurity, underachievement, career progression,...

Subir Sinha

is a Senior HR Professional. After 0ver 30 years in Corporate with companies he has started his entrepreneurial venture Stratuphr Consulting wherein he is engaged with multiple startups and helping them build robust HR systems and processes. He also helps companies to recruit quality talent.

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