--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote: "The leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem." (quote from the article, not B)
But that IS the problem -- the leaders above. In my own experience, the leader(s) above finds it difficult to be a total bastard all the time, and so delegates part of his job to subordinates. I've seen this so often, I dont even trust Ben and Jerry.
BobW
> [Oh, look - it's another study that casts a ray of
> sunshine on this bleak world! The article advocates
> "industry chiefs" intervene to stop the bad bosses
> from rising in the ranks. Hilarious. -B.]
>
>
> Bad bosses get promoted, not punished
>
> By Rachel Breitman
> Fri Aug 3, 12:36 AM ET
>
> How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way
> seems to be by making their subordinates miserable,
> according to a study released on Friday.
>
> 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.
>
> "The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents
> indicated that either nothing at all or something
> positive happened to the bad leader is rather
> remarkable -- remarkably disturbing," wrote the
> study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and
> Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia.
>
> 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.
>
> The authors advocated immediate intervention by
> industry chiefs to stop fledgling office
> authoritarians from rising up the ranks.
>
> "As with any sort of cancer, the best alternative to
> prevention is early detection," they wrote.
>
> They faulted senior managers for not recognizing the
> signs of workplace strife wrought by bad bosses.
> "The
> leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and
> promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional
> problem."
>
> The study will be presented at the annual meeting of
> the Academy of Management, a research and teaching
> organization with nearly 17,000 members, from Sunday
> to Wednesday in Philadelphia.
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