職場研究：壞老闆升職快
Bad bosses get promoted, not punished
How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released on Friday.
How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released on Friday.
In the study presented at a conference on management last weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.
"The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable -- remarkably disturbing," wrote the study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia.
Despite their success in the office, spiteful supervisors can cause serious malaise for their subordinates, the study suggested, citing nightmares, insomnia, depression and exhaustion as symptoms of serving a brutal boss.
The authors advocated immediate intervention by industry chiefs to stop fledgling office authoritarians from rising up the ranks.
"As with any sort of cancer, the best alternative to prevention is early detection," they wrote.
They faulted senior managers for not recognizing the signs of workplace strife wrought by bad bosses. "The leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem."
The study was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, a research and teaching organization with nearly 17,000 members, from Sunday to Wednesday in Philadelphia.
怎樣才能獲得升職機會？據上週五公佈的一項研究，其中一個途徑就是“壓迫”下屬。
該研究在上週末的一個管理學術研討會上公佈。在一項共有240人蔘加的在線調查中，近三分之二的人稱，單位裏的“暴君”不僅不會因對下屬專橫跋扈受到責備，反而能獲得晉升機會。
研究報告的撰寫者、澳大利亞邦德大學的安東尼·堂·埃裏克森、本·肖和查·阿格比在報告中提到：“64.2%的受訪者指出，壞領導要麼‘安然無恙’，要麼反倒走起了‘好運’，這一事實實在令人擔憂。”
研究表明，壞老闆事業上的成功是建立在下屬的“痛苦”之上的。在壞老闆手下做事，員工會出現做噩夢、失眠、抑鬱和疲憊等不良身體症狀。
研究報告的撰寫者們呼籲行業領導立即採取措施阻止有此種苗頭的單位領導獲得晉升機會。
他們在研究報告中寫道：“就像對於癌症一樣，最好的預防辦法就是早發現。”
他們指責高層管理者未及時發現辦公室裏因壞領導而引起的衝突苗頭。“高層領導不採取任何措施，反而獎勵提拔他們，這又是一個問題。”
該研究在管理學會一年一度的研討會上公佈。管理學會是一個研究與教學組織，共有近1萬7千名成員，此次於上週日開幕的年會在費城召開，將持續至本週三
