One way people get ahead in the workplace seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a new Australian study.
The study found almost two-thirds of 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.
The study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe from Bond University on the Gold Coast, said "the fact that 64.2% of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable - remarkably disturbing".
They faulted senior managers for not recognising 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," they wrote.
[How do they think the leaders above them got there?]
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