PHILADELPHIA Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Being a bad boss, it seems, isn't much of a hindrance to upward career mobility, a survey conducted in the United States and Australia purports to show.
Researchers from Bond University in Australia, who presented their findings at the Academy of Management's annual meeting in Philadelphia this month, said 45 percent of workers surveyed reported having had a particularly "bad leader" as a boss who nevertheless was promoted. Another 19 percent said bad bosses suffered no negative ramifications for their lack of leadership ability and only 13 percent were weeded out of the organization, Human Resources Executive Online reports.
The academic researchers found the results "remarkably disturbing."
Their online survey of 240 Americans and Australians was part of a larger study that showed one-third of those surveyed reported that working for bad bosses caused them stress, fatigue, insomnia and bad dreams.
The results came as no surprise to John Hoover, who wrote "How to Work for an Idiot: Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss."
"The more incompetent someone is, the faster their career takes off," Hoover said.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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