The new corporate gaslighting
- Dr. Laura McHale
- Jul 24, 2023
- 1 min read
In an article for the British Psychological Society's magazine, Dr. Laura McHale asks whether the inability to ‘manage ambiguity’ is a personal failing, or an excuse for bad management.
To read the article, please visit: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/new-corporate-gaslighting
As a victim of what I’ve been calling ‘Corporate Gaslighting’ for a long time, I thought I’d search the term online, and it turns out, I didn’t coin the phrase! Others used if first.
But I’ve just read your article on the BPS website; “The new corporate gaslighting” and wanted to say thanks for illuminating this topic.
I work for a large organisation, and their go-to position when I’ve raised issues for suffering discrimination, is to undermine me, as though my failure to cope with their discrimination is my personal failing (which it may well be) but rather than admit or address their ‘systemic dysfunction’ it’s easier to make me the target.
After all, why change an entire company culture,…