Which of the following ways do employees demonstrate their anxiety in your organization?

Name
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Check if "Yes"	Symptom
	Difficulty in being objective about issues at hand
	Over-focus on - or preoccupation with - how others are functioning
	Perceiving self as having little or no part in the problems at hand
	Intense blaming of one or more fellow employees by the rest of the group (“scape-goating”)
	Difficulty incorporating new members into the group
	Distancing and/or emotional cut-off from the organization or sub-group
	Perceiving problems at work only in terms of “pathological functioning” or incompetence of individual members
	Difficulty of individuals or sub-groups in planning for or focusing clearly on future goals and accomplishments
	Participation in gossip at work and preoccupation with strong feelings about the organization and other employees, sometimes at the expense of personal functioning on the job
	Avoidance of employee gatherings, i.e. staff meetings and social functions (which invariably elicits negative focus of the group on the distancing individual)
	Participation in emotional alliance in which 2 or more people blame, exclude or ignore 1 or more other people (i.e. “triangles”)
	Excessive illness or sick leave in employees
	High rate of employee turnover
	A tendency to view other sub-systems outside of one’s own as adversarial, and to blame or distance from them
	A tendency to understand problems in terms of personalities rather than in terms of concepts, policies, or procedures
	A breakdown in meeting structure (i.e. staff meetings and supervision conferences are held irregularly, not at all, or are easily cancelled and not rescheduled)
	Perception of the leader as mostly responsible for solution to problems, as opposed to assuming responsibility along with the leader

Based on Bowen Family Systems Theory