The Center for Women’s Studies at the University of Baghdad held an electronic workshop sponsored by the Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Unit entitled “The nature of negative hostile behaviors at work and ways to address them” via the Google Meet service chaired by the director of the Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Unit at the center, Dr. Reem Khamis Mahdi who gave a lecture on “The nature of negative hostile behavior in the work environment”, as well as the Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan Saeed Jassim from the college of education for women at the University of Basra, entitled: “Treatments and avoidant solutions to mitigate hostility at work: psychological and social mechanisms”, including a lot of interventions and inquiries by the attendees in the presence of academics and employees.
The workshop was concluded with a number of recommendations, including the need to address problems related to the work environment because it creates a state of negative and frustration, especially issues of grievance and lack of appreciation, and try to create the appropriate environment at work and try to contain crises by working in friendly and diplomatic ways and with high professionalism away from bias, improve the work environment at the physical level, and try hard to invest capabilities and capabilities through diagnosing and counting them and putting the right person in the right place in order to make the most of these energies at the level of the institution and training employees to develop their functional and technical capabilities and expand training courses to include university and administrative leaders to include training on the art of crisis management and the possibility of solving problems and propose a government program that addresses the issue of workplace abuse and the issue of not giving the employee the due appreciation.