What Makes A Poor Boss?
I have been employed by a number of different companies and have therefore had a number of different bosses. In this article I will be writing about what, in my opinion, constitutes a poor boss. I am hoping that by doing this it will actually help other people who are in management to improve.
My last boss was a quirky character. He had a real lack of care towards his employees and the staff turnover, for the department he was in charge of, was extremely high. I often wondered why people who were above him never stepped in to question this as it can not have looked good for the company as a whole. This chap on a Monday morning would ask how your weekend went but you could just tell that he was not interested at all and that he was not even listening to your response. In fact before you had a chance to complete the answer he had started to talk about work. I remember him asking how people’s holiday had been, they would answer and he would always reply, oh thats good. I could tell that he had not listened to the answer and often hoped that somebody, just once, would state how bad their holiday had been. “Oh that’s good!”
This guy was also very poor at decision making. Talk about in-decisive, the word was invented for this boss. As a department we needed strong and confident leadership, this was something we never had with this person in charge.
Communication is a big part of management and unfortunately this was another weakness of my previous boss. I would always seem to hear the latest company news from friends in other departments before hearing it from my own boss. Their managers always seemed to keep them well informed over any developments, mine liked to keep all of the information to himself.
I apologise if this article has been slightly on the negative side. I am actually hoping that its readers can learn something from it, in fact of what makes a good boss!
Stephen Hill runs The How To Stop Stammering Centre, he has a number of websites including:
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