Bad Bosses Often Source of Unhappy, Unhealthy Workers: Study

Bad Bosses Often Source of Unhappy, Unhealthy Workers: Study By SiliconIndia | Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 03:25 Hrs |

Bangalore: Often it is seen that a bad boss with poor leadership skills affects the enthusiasm of the staff and the productivity of the business. However, a new study highlights that bad bosses can affect employees personal lives as well, because many employees take home their workplace tensions caused by their boss reveals, Université Francois Rabelais in Tours, France, reports David Schepp of Aol Jobs.

The French scientists found that if a workplace atmosphere is not a healthy, productive one, it can adversely affect the employee’s health, raising the risk for heart diseases. This was also brought into limelight by the new study published recently in the "Journal of Business and Psychology."This said that managers who pressurize their staff in order to motivate them and the organizations that do not give importance to the individual contributions of their staffs are more probable to discover that their workers are more frustrated and are unable of working with others.

The study was conducted amongst all sizes of French business. Researchers polled more than 1,100 employees, with the help of a questionnaire, asking the employees for their idea of their boss' management style and whether they felt that they worked in an encouraging environment.
Employees who said that they felt well supported in their efforts to work independently were more satisfied and happy than their counterpart who felt their needs are not being met.
The researchers say "Our study shows that both organizational and managerial factors have an influence on satisfying or frustrating the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and how we relate to others,". Furthermore, they said that, "To satisfy employees' needs, supervisors should provide subordinates with options rather than use threats and deadlines, a strategy which could improve their workforce's well-being."
The study findings reveal that if the employees are grumpy and ineffectual, managers have no one else to hold responsible but them.