UNHEALTHY EXPECTATIONS: A good boss set expectations high enough to stretch us but healthy enough not to break us. What are those things that bosses do to drive their employees beyond the edge? These are: Their dirty tactics include: personal insults, invading one's personal space, uninvited personal contact, threats and intimidation (verbal and non-verbal), sarcastic jokes and teasing, public humiliation, rude interruptions, dirty looks, treating people like they are invisible, and two-faced attacks”.īad bosses come in different forms and shades, which is actually the object of this piece. In the article, “How bad bosses can make you sick”, Ray Williams said, “A jerk in the workplace is defined as someone who oppresses, humiliates, de-energizes or belittles a subordinate or a colleague. Goggle’s “no jerk" policy has so much ensure that toxic bosses don’t stay or even find their way into the company. One of the success story of the internet giant- Goggle Inc-is their constant culture of systematically ‘flushing’ out bad bosses or what they have now come to term as ‘A Jerk in the workplace’. By contrast, employees who worked with "good" leaders were 40% less likely to suffer heart problems. Nyberg said, "For all those who work under managers who they perceive behave strangely, or in any way they don't understand, and they feel stressed, the study confirms this develops into a health risk." They found that employees who had managers who were incompetent, inconsiderate, secretive and uncommunicative, were 60% more likely to suffer a heart attack or other life-threatening cardiac condition. They studied more than 3,100 men over a 10 year period in typical work settings. Swedish researchers, led by Anna Nyberg at the Stress Institute in Stockholm, have published a study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine on the issue of leaders' behavior and employee health. Recent data from the American Psychology Association shows that 75% of American workers believe their bosses are a major cause of stress at work. On another side, reviews and studies have shown that bad bosses can actually make employees sick! It is a concluded study that the longer you stay in a job working for someone who stresses you, the greater the damage is to your physical and mental health.
Since the employee or victim of a toxic boss cannot vent his anger on his ‘punisher’, he is forced to look for other platforms where he can easily transfer his aggression in most cases the family is normally the recipient! Most stress and arguments in families and relationship are simply an outflow or aftermath of a resentful and unfulfilled relationship between an employee and his boss. In fact, it has been observed that the relationship between an employee and his boss is responsible for major breakdown in families, friendships, and even personal identity. Working for a bad boss is the worst kind of mental and emotional abuse. When you spend so much money and resources to train your employees and the end result is their exit, then it is high time you reviewed the leaders and managers they might just be the reason for the unhealthy exodus! In recent times, turn-over rates in companies have become unprecedentedly appalling. When the environment is conducive, growth, fulfillment, and productivity are almost automatic and even inevitable. I have always said it that the greatest job of a leader is to create the right environment. Often talented individuals are forced to job-hop from one company to another in order to have a new lease of life.
The debilitating effect of a bad boss cannot be quantified as the time spent counseling, appeasing, consoling victimized employees, reorganizing departments or teams, and arranging transfers as an aftermath of the strain with bad bosses and managers produce significant hidden costs for the company. The greatest threat to a company’s culture is a bad or toxic boss. There is nothing that kills dynamism, exterminate a ‘new generation’, and poisons change than a bad boss.Īccording to a survey conducted by an International Association of Administrative Professionals, a bad boss is the NO.1 reason employees quit. A bad boss can prevent a new generation of dynamic and enterprising employees from emerging. In actual sense, people don't leave bad companies, they leave bad bosses! Toxic bosses are the greatest liability to an establishment and even worse than fraud! Employees leave bad bosses and the companies that allow the bad boss to thrive. Marcus Buckingham said, "People leave managers, not companies". "An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.”-Bob Nelson
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