2023-10-15 07:09:04
Bad relationships with bosses and their effects, from toxic work environments to career ceilinging, top any list of reasons why employees leave their jobs, regardless of generation.
Congestion at the subwayPhoto: INQUAM Photos / Octav Ganea
In a year still battered by the effects of the pandemic, in which almost half of the employees are thinking of changing their job, the quality of the bosses and their relationship with the subordinate teams is perhaps more important than ever. Some inept bosses and the drain they can create on employee productivity is an equation that at this time can turn into a toxic bomb for an entire company.
As always, though, simple things are actually complicated: with four generations of employees in the workplace at once, each with their own list of things that motivate them and annoy them, it’s harder than ever to define the ideal boss.
With the help of psychology doctors specialized in organizational culture, teams and leadership, such as Dragoș Iliescu and Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa, as well as human resources specialist Iuliana Leurent, Panorama relates the robot portrait of the ideal boss with an X-ray of the factors what motivates and annoys employees, depending on the generation they were born into.
The need for this analysis took root in the summer before the pandemic, poolside with a cocktail in one hand and the most unlikely summer read in the other, reading How to Work for an Idiot in laugh-out-loud fits.
The book is American consultant John Hoover’s famously humorous how-to “survive and thrive without killing your boss.” There was a time when worrying that a new coronavirus would change the world, including the dynamics of work relationships, really wasn’t on anyone’s list of concerns (less than Bill Gates). Surely, however, like the character lounging in the sun, the minds of many employees were occupied then, as now, with how toxic a workplace can become, due to the wrong bosses.
- “Idiot Bosses are those mutant hiccups on the ladder of organizational evolution who, like cockroaches, are immune to the calamities that wipe out truly talented and creative people.” – John Hoover, “How to Work for an Idiot”
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