"If you think you're working for a bad boss, you have plenty of company.
Of 1,118 people who completed a survey at the Badbossology.com web site last year, "48 percent said they would fire their boss if they could, 29 percent would have their boss assessed by a workplace psychologist and 23 percent would send their boss for management training."
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Successful management of a boss has four elements:
1. Decoding the rules of survival and success.
2. Building trust: avoiding career limiting moves.
3. Building a career network.
4. Turning moments of truth into moments of magic.
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If you're more excited that your boss is out sick with the flu than you are about your new raise, you're in good company.
In workplaces throughout the country, difficult bosses are ruining morale and making life just downright unpleasant. Whether they refuse to give you time off or they expect you to be their mother, bad bosses can put you in an awkward position.
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How bad is your boss, really? How difficult is the situation you have
to cope with? This quiz will help you rate your situation compared
to others so you can better put your own boss in perspective. After
all, you may think your boss is really bad in some ways, but not so
bad in others, while other people may have a boss who is bad in
many ways. This quiz will help you better understand what to do to
deal with your situation, from making the best of it, to having a
conversation, to bringing in a neutral third party or advocate, to
moving on—preferably with a good reference.
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Maybe it is not them.
If employee turnover and absenteeism within the company are too high, and productivity and morale too low, the person in charge may be the one at fault.
To find out how good — or bad — a boss you are, the National Federation of Independent Business, a small business advocacy group, suggests asking yourself these questions:
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"The best advice for having a bad manager is to seek other employment. Don’t undervalue your happiness: it’s impossible to be happy if you work directly for someone you can’t stand. It may be difficult to find another job, but if you are willing to make compromises in other areas (salary, position, project, location, etc.) it will certainly be possible. Being happy and underpaid is a much better way to spend a life than unhappy and anything else."
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"So how do you deal with a bully boss? Well, you could testify in front of the Senate, for one thing. But if that's not going to happen, consider tips offered by Steven L. Katz, author of "Lion Taming: Working Successfully With Leaders, Bosses, and Other Tough Customers":"
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"Abusive bosses, bullies with big job titles, make everyone else's lives miserable. Online polling shows that the problem is widespread and that an abusive boss is more likely to be a woman than a man.
"According to the Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute, bullying by women toward women represents 50 percent of all workplace abusiveness. Bullying by men toward women represent 30 percent. Men bullying men is an even rarer situation, at 12 percent."
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"If you've morphed into a boss from hell, you're going to lose more than a popularity contest. Mean or devious bosses will "experience low productivity, employees who will not make decisions, high turnover and the inability to recruit a quality staff," predicts Toni Talbot, owner of Human Resource Management Services in Williamston, Michigan. "Bosses from hell will eventually end up taking the company to hell because no company can survive that kind of management style. Not today, not in this economy."
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"Organizations, like people, have personalities. Go into an organization and, within about 10 minutes, you can get a general sense of what it is like to work there. At the core, I would describe these "stinky" companies as rigid, arrogant and cold. People look fed up. They have that determined look you get when you have to catch the commuter train in three minutes and you're late. Their speech is abrupt."
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"According to Terry Bates, managing director of GHN Coaching, most people have problems with their superiors. It goes with the territory. Banking bosses may, however, be more problematic than most. In a business driven by the bottom line, executives are frequently selected for promotion on the basis of their financial contribution rather than their management skills."
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"Most people who punch a time clock have at least one horror story about a coworker or supervisor.... But if you have a coworker who can't empathize with others, abuses power and ignores boundaries, creates constant turmoil, is rigid and inflexible, and appears to have a hidden agenda, you may be dealing with someone who has a personality disorder. Can you spot the warning signs?"
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"If your boss doesn't treat you well, you simply put in a few more hours cranking out work better and faster than anyone else. This makes sense and is how things ought to be. Unfortunately, people only behave this way in fantasyland. At all too many companies, working harder and doing more only gets you treated worse than ever and, possibly, fired. That's because many bosses aren't interested in having you work better."
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"Fear of exposure is reminiscent of Paranoid Personality Disorder, a pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent. An inability to trust, doubts about others' loyalty, distortion and fabrication, misinterpretation, and bearing grudges unnecessarily are hallmarks of the disorder. Pathological jealousy, instinctive aggressive counter-attack, the need to control others, and the gathering of trivial or circumstantial "evidence" to support their jealous beliefs also feature."
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"The serial bully displays behaviour congruent with many of the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Characterised by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity and self-importance, need for admiration, and lack of empathy, people with narcissistic personality disorder overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments, often appearing boastful and pretentious, whilst correspondingly underestimating and devaluing the achievements and accomplishments of others."
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"Dealing with people is not always a smooth and seamless process. When that "challenging" person is your boss, you must use savvy, skill, excellent timing so that you not only survive, but thrive in your position. Let's talk about three kinds of bosses: the slave driver, the bully, and the disorganized chief."
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"You are about to enter a nightmare. You are a conscientious and productive worker. Your boss, who previously was supportive, starts making carping criticisms of your work and gives no praise. Then, out of the blue, you are carpeted and subjected to screaming abuse. Previously you were invited to planning meetings, but now you are left off the list - but your subordinate is included. Petty obstacles are put in your way, such as difficulties in getting materials or cooperation. You are losing prime assignments. As the problems compound, you lose confidence and perform below your best. After one small oversight, you are criticised in front of your co-workers without a chance to reply. You begin to dread coming to work, never knowing when the boss will sink another barb into your weakened ego." This Resource goes on to review 11 top books on bosses and bullying.
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