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How to deal with a bad boss - CBS News

"MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Of all the emails I get asking for advice, the most common by far is people wanting to know how to handle a bad or dysfunctional boss."

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How to Handle an Abusive Boss / Today's Chicago Woman

"Almost everyone has had a difficult boss in her career. They come in a wide variety of forms: the micromanager, the critic, the blamer, the harasser, the disorganized boss. But there is a crucial difference between a demanding or somewhat dysfunctional boss and an abusive boss. The abusive boss who lacks emotional control and is subject to rage attacks needs to get help. But, as the boss is the boss, many employees will not speak out about the problem. Knowing how to handle an abusive boss and where to go for help could break this cycle."

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The Boss From Hell

"Early in my career, I mean decades ago, I had a boss from hell. Oh sure, I’ve had lots of dysfunctional bosses. I was a pretty dysfunctional boss myself. But this guy was different. I’m talking serious lunatic stuff here. It was so traumatic that I sort of blocked it out of my memory. But as is often the case with tragedy, there was also a comic aspect and maybe even a lesson to be learned."

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How to Deal With a Bad Boss: Don't! | BNET

"We spend an inordinate amount of time decrying and complaining about our bosses. Just looking at BNET posts alone, you’d think all bosses are complete idiots, dysfunctional jerks, micromanaging a-holes … or that they just plain suck."

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The Ways of the Good Boss and the Bad Boss

"The relationship between boss and employee can be filled with respect and integrity. It can also be filled with tension and conflict. And for some, the relationship is filled with dread, acrimony, and dysfunction. Stanford Management Science and Engineering Professor Robert Sutton studies the dynamics and behaviors at work in these unique relationships."

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Toxic Leadership - How To Spot It And How To Avoid It

"Toxic leadership as a concept was coined by Marcia Lynn Whicker, in her book: "Toxic Leaders: When Organizations Go Bad" [New York: Doubleday, 1996. This phrase is linked with a number of dysfunctional leadership styles."

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Engage the employee with supportive relationships

"Recent publicity on workplace bullying, and studies conducted by sociologist Tim Hallet on the negative impact of gossip on workplace camaraderie, suggest organisations need to be wary of the detrimental effects of dysfunctional employee relations on business performance."

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Power Plus Incompetence Equals a Mean Boss

"So why are workplace tyrants so common? What's the psychological dynamic underlying such dysfunction at the top? It's not simply the power; there are many powerful bosses who are good and decent—or at least tolerable. Power corrupts only some—but which ones and why? Two psychologists recently decided to explore one possible explanation: perhaps it is power, but only power mixed with incompetence, that leads to aggression and abuse."

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Toxic leader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"A toxic leader is someone who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader-follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse-off condition than when s/he first found them. The phrase was coined by Marcia Whicker in 1996 and is linked with a number of dysfunctional leadership styles."

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HOW TO BE A BAD BOSS

Executive coach Paul Lemberg is a pretty upbeat guy, but he's often frustrated by how often well-meaning bosses put obstacles in front of their employees and create dysfunctional organizations. "Most discussions of management and leadership talk about what to do to help people be their best," he notes, "but they don't talk about why executives and entrepreneurs routinely do the opposite."

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I'm A Bad Boss? Blame My Dad

"More execs are studying their family pasts to root out workplace dysfunction."

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Characteristics of Dysfunctional Workplaces

A useful list of characteristics of workplaces that foster bullies that also serves as a good checklist for people to use when evaluating their current work environment as well as bosses.

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