In any case, managers need to be just as attentive to a well-mannered workforce as they are rightfully concerned with organizing and overseeing workloads from top to bottom.
A cheerful workplace pays dividends in work done well.
The worst stance you can assume is hiding your head in the sand when you get wind of any worker mistreating a fellow worker.
It's true that we work best when we all row the boat as a congenial team.
I think that may be the key point in observing an office etiquette that is squarely based on being nice to one another.
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attentive pay dividends get wind of congenial observe an office etiquette
────────────────────────────── attentive, 気を使う ────────────────────────────── Be Nice (4)より
If you are attentive, you are paying close attention what is being said or done.
ex) He wishes the government would be more attentive to detail in their response.
────────────────────────────── pay dividends, 配当がつく、利益を生む、役立つ ────────────────────────────── Be Nice (4)より
If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
ex) Taking time out to get fit is time well spent and will pay you dividends in the long run.
────────────────────────────── get wind of, …のうわさをかぎつける ────────────────────────────── Be Nice (4)より
If you get wind of something such as a plan or information, you get to know about it, often when other people did not want you to. You can also say that you catch wind of something.
ex) It was at the end of July, five months into the company's year, that the market got wind of a problem, and Tom Farmer, chairman and chief executive, gave warning that sales were down.
────────────────────────────── congenial, 気性のあった ────────────────────────────── Be Nice (4)より
A congenial person, place, or environment is pleasant. [FORMAL]
ex) He is back in more congenial company.
────────────────────────────── observe an office etiquette, オフィスエチケットを守る ────────────────────────────── Be Nice (4)より
If you observe something such as a law or custom, you obey it or follow it.
ex) Imposing speed restrictions is easy, but forcing motorists to observe them is trickier.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Be Nice (6) 11/16-17 2007"
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