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Posted: 4/21/2004 8:00:00 AM

Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 21, 2004 - The old adage that people leave bosses not companies is still germane as shown by a survey conducted by Badbossology.com. Between March 23rd and April 18th, of the 507 people who completed the survey on its site (http://www.badbossology.com), 71% are looking for a new job in response to a problem with their boss.

More generally, other surveys indicate that approximately 40% of employees have had to deal with a bad boss. And a Gallup survey of over 1,000,000 employees found that if a company is losing good people, more than any other single reason, the cause is their immediate supervisor: Gallup also found poorly managed workgroups are an average of 50% less productive and 44% less profitable than well managed groups.

Badbossology.com itself is a new and completely free web site designed to protect both people and companies. The site provides continually updated material in an intuitive, blog-style user interface. It takes a responsible balanced approach, devoid of ranting and 'Boss from Hell' stories, and also provides key resources for bosses, executives and board members (http://www.badbossology.com/c68). Material is drawn from sources such as The Chicago Tribune, CNNMoney.com, Fast Company, The Harvard Business School, and the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com.

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User: felinephunktion
Date: 3/23/2005 8:01:00 PM

I think that in any industry if you are applying for management that you should be given a personality test and a number of other social skill tests to see how you would handle certain situations. If that is already being done then it needs to be updated. Of the past two corporate jobs I have worked I have had an obviously unfair boss at each place. At each place I have had atleast 4 bosses to report to and only one at each place was unfit for management, but that one manager can make your life hell. It should be very important for companies to make sure that their employees are satisfied with their work environment. Maybe they could send out surveys to employees and an employee could anonymously fill out and send it to headquarters. There are many things companies could do to make their employees more satisfied. I feel bad for people who work for a company that is almost inhumane to their employees but the employee must stay for insurance benefits or the employee has kids so therefore the employee will just miserably deal with a crummy boss for fear of losing their job. I did hear once that a disgruntled employee usually works harder than a happy one. Is this true.

User: anonymous
Date: 4/23/2005 6:37:00 PM

In response to your last question I have cut & pasted from the article above. "Gallup also found poorly managed workgroups are an average of 50% less productive and 44% less profitable than well managed groups."

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