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.
