What do you do about employee actions that are legal but considered “bad behavior” in the workplace? How do you lessen its effects on productivity and on other workers? These articles may help. Mike Brassil discusses How to Defuse a Potentially Dangerous Work Situation. Coping with coworkers is outlined in 5 Tips for Dealing With Difficult Coworkers.  Nadra Kareem discusses how to avoid culturally inappropriate behaviors in the workplace in Racially Inappropriate Behaviors at Work and the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck, David J. Pollay, provides insight on increasing happiness, success, and civility at the office in How to Stamp Out Bad Behavior at Work.

The author of How To Handle Difficult Behavior in the Workplace describes the many forms unwanted behavior can take, such as rudeness, yelling, shunning, mobbing, gossiping, refusing to talk to or acknowledge others, harassing, incessant complaining to supervisors, ignoring directives, and slow working. He provides helpful recommendations for dealing with these negative characteristics.