Jo’s Cafe

I heard about this survey while getting ready for work this morning and found it on Yahoo! by accident.

You don’t really think I’d be hunting down career advise — gasp — at work do you?

Anyway — the title is interesting, as are the results.   But then again, anyone that has worked in a hostile or toxic work environment sees the truth in the responses.

Survey: Bad bosses common, problematic

For most people, it’s back to work Tuesday after a holiday weekend with family and friends. And for many, a new study shows, it will be under a bad boss.

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“They say that employees don’t leave their job or company, they leave their boss,” said Wayne Hochwarter, an associate professor of management in the College of Business at Florida State University, who joined with two doctoral students at the school to survey more than 700 people working in a variety of jobs about how their bosses treat them.

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The results of the study are scheduled for publication in the Fall 2007 issue of The Leadership Quarterly, a journal read by consultants, managers and executives.

The findings include:

• 39 percent of workers said their supervisor failed to keep promises.

• 37 percent said their supervisor failed to give credit when due.

• 31 percent said their supervisor gave them the “silent treatment” in the past year.

Read the rest of the article for some eye-opening (or not-so eye-opening) results.