Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Are You a Bad Boss? Take this Quiz
Do you:
1. Ignore people issues, like support, development and conflict?
2. Criticize, downplay or ignore your employees' ideas, or take credit for their work?
3. Lack necessary knowledge, skills or experience in your field or profession?
4. Try to ignore serious problems or inadvertently make them worse?
5. Measure business results based only on things that can be easily counted?
6. Hire unqualified employees, vendors or consultants?
7. Do the nitty-gritty, detailed work in your department?
8. Insult, taunt, harass, or threaten employees, or snap, shout or curse at them?
9. Expect employees to agree with your ideas, or withhold or give them incorrect information?
10. Gossip with the peers of some employees or encourage infighting and internal competition?
11. Use company assets inappropriately or unethically?
12. Work against company goals and programs while pretending to support them?
13. Feel like a different person on different days, contradict yourself, or have extreme mood swings from day to day?
If you answered "Yes" to one or more of these questions, then you behave like the kind of boss employees mistrust and disrespect. They may label you a "bad boss" and work around or against you in ways you cannot anticipate or prevent.
Want to be trusted and respected? Just stop doing these things. Can't stop? Seek professional counseling.
(Quiz excerpted from the book, "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Boss? 13 Types and How to Survive Them")
1. Ignore people issues, like support, development and conflict?
2. Criticize, downplay or ignore your employees' ideas, or take credit for their work?
3. Lack necessary knowledge, skills or experience in your field or profession?
4. Try to ignore serious problems or inadvertently make them worse?
5. Measure business results based only on things that can be easily counted?
6. Hire unqualified employees, vendors or consultants?
7. Do the nitty-gritty, detailed work in your department?
8. Insult, taunt, harass, or threaten employees, or snap, shout or curse at them?
9. Expect employees to agree with your ideas, or withhold or give them incorrect information?
10. Gossip with the peers of some employees or encourage infighting and internal competition?
11. Use company assets inappropriately or unethically?
12. Work against company goals and programs while pretending to support them?
13. Feel like a different person on different days, contradict yourself, or have extreme mood swings from day to day?
If you answered "Yes" to one or more of these questions, then you behave like the kind of boss employees mistrust and disrespect. They may label you a "bad boss" and work around or against you in ways you cannot anticipate or prevent.
Want to be trusted and respected? Just stop doing these things. Can't stop? Seek professional counseling.
(Quiz excerpted from the book, "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Boss? 13 Types and How to Survive Them")
Labels: bad boss quiz, leadership, quiz, respect, trust
