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What makes a bad boss?
Workplace culture in the US and the UK might be different – but it seems some things are universal: including moaning about bosses.A US-based global human resource consulting firm – Development Dimensions International – teamed up with badbossology.com, which describes itself as a bad-boss protection resource site, to find out leadership sins.
Top of the list were:
- Being everyone’s friend
- Micromanagement
- Arrogance – particularly male bosses
- Inability to delegate – particularly female bosses
- Risk averse – cited by four times as many male employees as female
The survey also asked for the top three qualities people would like to see in their bosses – trust in employees topped the list followed by honesty and integrity with team building skills in third place.
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Interviewees fail to prepare, poll reveals
Less than half of candidates prepare for job interviews, a survey from Office Team reveals.The online poll revealed that 53 per cent of office workers admitted they could know more about the companies they apply to – and seven per cent say they know nothing at all about their prospective employer.
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Better bosses
I hate the gender linkages of this research, which may then become reinforcing stereotypes if we aren’t very careful, but what a helpful list for us all to take note of!
I am always wary of reports of ‘arrogance’ – because they may often say at least as much about the self-esteem of the receiver as the underlying intentions of the transmitter; and ‘risk aversion’ covers a huge scale that may well be worthy of further analysis, not unallied to work by Dr Michael Kirton on Adaptability v Innovation <'KAI'>.
But great stuff even so!
Do we think this US research translates directly to the UK? And if not, how might the results differ?
Sincerely
Jeremy