The good news, if you’re the boss, is only 11 percent of employees polled would dare to make good on threats to quit without having something else lined up. [FINS]
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Is your boss the type to JUST BLATHER ON as though anyone gives a shit re: what he has to say because what? His name/initials are on the door? As you can’t very well just get up and leave or whip out the wrap it up box, you’re probably looking for new and inventive ways to describe his painful monologues/speeches to your colleagues and friends. To that end, might we suggest “ball-achingly indulgent”? Continue reading »
Astounding Research Reveals Highly Compensated Bosses May Not Give Rat’s Ass About Their Organization’s Peons
By Bess LevinAccording to a new study, a high salary may actually make your company’s CEO meaner. In the study’s white paper, “When Executives Rake in Millions: Meanness in Organizations,” professors from Harvard, Rice and the University of Utah argue that rising income inequality between executives and ordinary workers results in “power asymmetries in the workplace such that top executives come to view lower level workers as dispensable objects not worthy of human dignity.” [HP via HNM] Continue reading »