title: Managing cliques and exclusionary behavior within your medical practice team.
abstract: Unfortunately, cliques aren't a problem that you left behind in high school. Workplace cliques can be just as or even more troubling for you today, especially if they have the potential to affect your career, employee morale and performance, and your medical practice more broadly. This article describes workplace cliques in detail. It provides examples of exclusionary and ostracizing behaviors that are often associated with cliques. And it describes the prevalence and effects of cliques in today's workplace. This article also provides practice managers with 10 tips for discouraging and managing cliques. It describes five common workplace cliques: management, veteran, prior relationship, status, and homophily. It offers medical staff employees 10 strategies for working effectively alongside of a clique. Finally this article describes the pitfalls and risks of belonging to a workplace clique.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hills
mesh_terms: D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008503:Medical Staff / Q000458:organization & administration; D009013:Morale; D017008:Negotiating; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012933:Social Identification