Working Life…

The workplace is an environment that needs to be molded and maintained by company policies and employee professionalism. A good work environment based on professional staff attitudes can help encourage strong teamwork, could be a catalyst to improve productivity and inspire employee behaviors.
There are many false belief about professionalism. Perhaps the most common misconceptions is that one needs to look “professional” to be professional. This is an absurd and outdated idea. Wearing a suit is what politicians, lawyers, used car dealers, corporate criminals, mobsters, and other unethical people do to make you think they are credible, trustworthy, professional, etc. Professionalism is not how you look, it is how you behave. It’s about saying what you mean, doing what you say and getting the job done. Therefore, you cannot tell someone is professional by looking at them and how you dress is not what makes you professional.
It is a common practice for managers and leaders to label things they don’t want to deal with as unprofessional. Examples include swearing, using adult language or occasional arguments. Since employees are human beings, we could expect them to do these things. Dealing with these issues, and many other similar ones, is management’s job, so calling them “unprofessional” in an effort to avoid dealing with potentially unpleasant aspects of the job is unprofessional.
Being professional is about doing the right thing, even if it takes more time or costs more in terms of money or effort. Below is a list of few of the most common unprofessional behavior in production activities and some constructive corrections for each.

Employee Interaction. The employees have deadlines, production goals and career development plans they are trying to achieve. The unprofessional employee consistently disturbs other employees by wandering from