How To Manage Your Boss

How To Manage Your Boss.
One distance of dealing with cranky bosses may be to turn their hostility back on them, a new study suggests. Hundreds of US workers were asked if their supervisors were inimical - doing things such as yelling, ridiculing and intimidating staff - and how the employees responded to such treatment. Workers who had unfavourable bosses but didn't retaliate had higher levels of nutty stress, were less satisfied with their jobs, and less committed to their employer than those who returned their supervisor's hostility, the burn the midnight oil found. But the researchers also found that workers who turned the hostility back on their bosses were less likely to consider themselves victims.

The workers in the analyse returned hostility by ignoring the boss, acting like they didn't recollect what the boss was talking about, or by doing a half-hearted job, according to the study that was published online recently in the weekly Personnel Psychology. "Before we did this study, I thought there would be no upside to employees who retaliated against their bosses, but that's not what we found," take author Bennett Tepper, a professor of management and human resources at Ohio State University, said in a university communication release.