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This is content which the typical bullied and vulnerable employee loves to read: 'Yes of course. It's my boss who drove me into depression.' Don't want to sound too cynical but a job is a job at the end of the day and life is more complex. Just blaming the boss for all the misery is a bit too easy. I expect to get downvoted because more people reading here have a boss than the other way round (I guess).
To elaborate, the things that often lead to unhappy workers also include: - Unknown expectations from the job - Little or no control over decisions that affect your job - Missing feeling of involvement The fair treatment bit is mentioned in the article. The reality is that people tend to be more irrational than they probably ought to be which usually has significant (negative) side-effects.
We can also say that not-every-boss is the irritant in a bad workplace situation, but that's a nitpick. Yes, I've had the bad-boss-in-a-good-organization and I've had the great-boss-in-a-rotten-job scenarios. In the latter type of situation, at least one human in a management or executive role made decisions that adversely affected my personal growth, workplace conditions, or feedback relationship with the company. It was often many humans up-the-chain making these kinds of decisions, in a loosely (sadistically) coordinated fashion, fully aware that their handling of resources was resulting in human suffering. If you have a great boss, both your job and his/her job can still be very, very stressful and limiting. Since we know that it's possible to run companies that don't have chronic worker stress issues, it's very much immoral to put people through this in the service of any business or organizational goals. (This applies to not-for-profit orgs, too)
Employees quit their bosses not the company.
Maybe sometimes, not always. I quit to go to a new company, but I would have gladly kept my boss. Actually that's happened to me a couple times.
Employees quit their bosses not the company.
Maybe sometimes, not always. I quit to go to a new company, but I would have gladly kept my boss. Actually that's happened to me a couple times.
Employees quit their bosses not the company.
If boss (really boss^n, for any n) makes them miserable, if just make more places relatively attractive. But there are always people quitting from good work places.
To elaborate, the things that often lead to unhappy workers also include: - Unknown expectations from the job - Little or no control over decisions that affect your job - Missing feeling of involvement The fair treatment bit is mentioned in the article. The reality is that people tend to be more irrational than they probably ought to be which usually has significant (negative) side-effects.
These factors indeed would stress people out. Put poor compensation and poor quality-of-living on this list as well, since we now live in a race-to-the-bottom global labor marketplace, and companies are aiming for absolute low payroll costs rather than location-adjusted costs. People will take a job at a unsustainable salary in the hopes of proving themselves and eventually receiving a compensation upgrade; there is…
There's also this very real phenomenon: "Retaliation: A Guide for Vindictive Bosses" - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffschmitt/2012/12/10/retaliati...
There isn't a particularly good reason why a modern middle manager has that much power over their direct reports.
> A study of 4,500 public employees... at Danish schools, hospitals, nurseries, offices, etc.
Public employees in Denmark work 35 hours a week, with 8 weeks holiday for teachers and 5 weeks holiday for others.
I really do not think this study applies to people who work 12 hours a day with no holidays.
Also it was published in 2013
Employees quit their bosses not the company.
Employees quit because they have a better place to go than their current job. (Or, at least, they think so.) If boss (really boss^n, for any n) makes them miserable, if just make more places relatively attractive. But there are always people quitting from good work places.
Sometimes, an undeniably amazing opportunity falls into the lap of someone who is overall quite happy at their present job, and they quit that job. But that's a fairly rare case.