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A new school year is coming up and directors want to refresh the staff with positive feelings of purpose and motivation. A new teacher arrives at a center-based work environment with inhibition and reserve. In each of these common situations, many steps can be taken to ensure that your work environment provides opportunity for the new and willing teacher to relax and become committed to the organization and for long term staff and teams to reaffirm their commitment to the program and to each other. During this era of teacher-shortage and the ongoing high turnover rate, directors cannot afford to overlook workplace norms and their role in the building of new teams and rebuilding of established teams.In a program the only policies involving purpose, motivation, and communication may be grievance procedures, orientation, and sometimes communication procedures or lines of authority. It is up to the director to supply staff with tools for promoting essential workplace norms which in essence protect the organization and everyone in it.
Group norms are standards or guides for behavior. Social norms specify behavioral expectations by defining what are correct and incorrect ways of responding to situations. Established social norms accomplish much in the workplace including such ...