CIVILITY MATTERS!

CONCLUSION
Civility within the federal public service continues to be an important issue. While more extreme forms of
behaviour such as bullying, harassment, and discrimination receive most of the attention, subtler forms of
disrespectful behaviour exact tremendous costs on individuals, teams, and organizations.
Raising our level of awareness about these potential impacts and utilizing evidence-informed strategies to
foster and sustain a respectful workplace maximizes the possibility of positioning the federal public service
to successfully navigate the workplace demands, both now and in the future. It will also contribute to
improving the physical and mental health of executives and making the federal public service an employer
of choice, a key consideration in this increasingly competitive labour market.
The federal public service will have an opportunity to assess progress on this front in the next APEX
Survey on Executive Work and Health which will be conducted in 2017. APEX will continue to work with
departments and central agencies to foster the development of a quality public service by strengthening
leadership excellence, promoting the health and well-being of executives and their working environments
and supporting executives in their quest for high performance, productivity and professional growth, the
mission it has been pursuing for more than thirty years.
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