{"id":430,"date":"2021-01-20T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?p=430"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:14","slug":"workplace-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/2021\/workplace-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Workplace Apologies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Regardless of the efforts of managers\/supervisors to do the right thing and behave in ethical ways, they make mistakes, and their subsequent apologies may have implications for the well-being of their colleagues\/employees and themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/kate-dupre\/\">Dr. Kathryne Dupr\u00e9<\/a> and her colleagues explored this issue and found that following different types of transgressions, manager\/supervisor apologies were positively associated with the psychological well-being and emotional health of their colleagues\/employees, and further, that the apologies of managers\/supervisors were positively associated with their own psychological well-being, emotional health and authentic pride. It seems that when managers\/supervisors apologize for wrongdoing it makes managers\/supervisors and their colleagues\/employees feel better about transgressions, and subsequently feel better themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read this article here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10551-013-1685-3\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10551-013-1685-3<\/a>, or another story about this here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/hk\/blog\/fulfillment-any-age\/201406\/4-ways-make-better-apology?collection=153137\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/hk\/blog\/fulfillment-any-age\/201406\/4-ways-make-better-apology?collection=153137<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the efforts of managers\/supervisors to do the right thing and behave in ethical ways, they make mistakes, and their subsequent apologies may have implications for the well-being of their colleagues\/employees and themselves. Dr. Kathryne Dupr\u00e9 and her colleagues explored this issue and found that following different types of transgressions, manager\/supervisor apologies were positively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness-wednesday"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"person-to-person"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}