{"id":1110,"date":"2007-08-06T10:47:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/brutal-bosses-get-promoted\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:47:27","slug":"brutal-bosses-get-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/brutal-bosses-get-promoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Bosses Get Promoted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This report just cuts against common sense in many ways.  From Yahoo News&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070803\/od_nm\/work_bosses_dc\">Bad bosses get promoted, not punished?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whenever I see these types of surveys, I wonder about the wording.  &#8220;Domineering ways&#8221; is definitely a fuzzy phrase.  I would guess that the respondents may simply have had an issue with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Selling_Style\/Dominance.html\">High D style<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked for quite a few bad bosses and I know the stress involved with them.  Some of these items seems a bit much:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite their success in the office, spiteful supervisors can cause serious malaise for their subordinates, the study suggested, citing nightmares, insomnia, depression and exhaustion as symptoms of serving a brutal boss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Color me skeptical on these results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report just cuts against common sense in many ways. From Yahoo News&#8217; Bad bosses get promoted, not punished? In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways. Whenever I see these types of surveys, I wonder about the wording. &#8220;Domineering ways&#8221; is definitely a fuzzy phrase. I would guess that the respondents may simply have had an issue with a High D style. I&#8217;ve worked for quite a few bad bosses and I know the stress involved with them. Some&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/brutal-bosses-get-promoted\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":538,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/do-we-really-need-a-study-for-bad-bosses\/","url_meta":{"origin":1110,"position":0},"title":"Do We Really Need A Study For Bad Bosses?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning I heard numerous references to this Florida State survey regarding lying bosses. 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