Beefs at the workplace

Objectives

• To make people realize the futility of “beefing” colleagues at work.
• To teach people who are victims of “beefs” how to overcome the challenge.

In those days, when you hear the word “beef” it referred to something pleasant i.e. cow meat but more recently, beef is a word more often used to describe a negative feeling for someone or something. I would like to put the records straight by defining the term “beef” as a situation where an individual or group of people is persecuting, finding fault, talking down, watering down or ridiculing someone’s effort or input in the organisation. It may also lead to withdrawal of support for the individual.

Let’s take a case sample of a friend of mine, who was a victim of beefs in his office, he noticed the following actions

v Responsibilities that were supposed to accrue to him were assigned to other people.

v He was denied access to training opportunities.

v His superiors/colleague did not teach him things he ought to be taught. He was forced to learn the hard way.

v During appraisal he is consistently rated C

v He couldn’t apply for a raise(because his workload is small even that is not his making)

v He was told “what” to do and not “how”. He was denied the benefits of his superior’s experience.

Have you ever been the target of a “beef?” Do you “beef” your colleagues?

I asked my friend a question and I will like to put it across to you. Why are you the target of a beef? Do you beef other people?