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Here’s a new-ish article on Harvard Business Review about how to intervene when an employee is being “gaslighted,” using said definition:
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where an individual tries to gain power and control over you. They will lie to you and intentionally set you up to fail. They will say and do things and later deny they ever happened. They will undermine you, manipulate you, and convince you that you are the problem. As in my case, at work, the “they” is often a manager who will abuse their position of power to gaslight their employees.
You don’t hear the term “gaslighting” in regards to work very much; it’s usually about interpersonal, romantic relationships. But we shift a lot of terms between the personal and professional these days, so I suppose we can shift “gaslighting” as well.
This specific article, linked above, is a standard business journalism article that gives a bunch of non-answers to a real problem, i.e. “communicate more!” (that’s mentioned in every article), and/or “fire the gaslighting manager!” (good look if he/she produces revenue) or “invite employees to more meetings!” (which is the last thing anyone needs in their life short of a brain bleed).
The sheer fact is that for many people, work has increasingly become inhumane, be that urinating in a bottle in an Amazon…
