What's Punishing Gets Priority.
People pay the most attention to what's punishing.
The more punishing your workplace, the more time and energy people are pouring into avoiding and shifting both risk and blame. In fact, people prioritize their activity to put the most effort into avoiding whatever is most punishing. If Basic Interpersonal Safety is not one of your explicit core values, it's past time to start looking at how the emotional dangers of your workplace are undermining productivity. What's Rewarded Gets Repeated. People tend to repeat those behaviors for which they get rewarded, and display other behaviors more randomly.