Toxic human factor of crisis situations within the Russian organizations

In the unsustainable times the financial crisis, transition from acquisitions, mergers, and competition, tend to create a highly topical problem of the employees' crisis and toxic managers. These phenomena are the causes and sources of various crisis situations in the organization affecting planning, organizing, problem solving, clarifying, delegating and motivating. In addition, they can result in so-called job-hopping phenomenon. In their turn, the crisis situations contribute to the appearance of some turbulence in the organization. Consequently, there are needed objects of constant surveillance to introduce the assessment system with some indicators that warn about emerging employees' crisis and toxicity level within the organization. This must be done in order to prevent their negative impact on the company profitability and the employees’ well-being, who, in turn, face the problem of increasing number of toxic workplaces in various companies. Based on secondary data and the results of the survey and semi-structured interviews, the authors realized that the cause-effect relationship between crisis and toxicity of management and employees exists in the Russian organizations and that looks like «circulation» with the links of «crisis - toxicity - crisis». Their interrelation can be very dangerous for the performance of the enterprise.