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How to Handle a Tyrant Boss
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Is your boss a tyrant of Machiavellian proportions? If it makes you feel better, you’re not alone. According to a recent study by the Employment Law Alliance, almost half of all employees have been targeted by a bully boss.
The study also revealed the following:
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81 percent of bullies are managers
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50 percent of bullies are women and 50 percent are men
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84 percent of targets are women
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82 percent of targets ultimately lost their jobs
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95 percent of bullying is witnessed
Most disturbing is that only 7 percent of workplace bullies end up censured, transferred or fired.
How do you handle a bully boss? You don’t have to be miserable and take his abuse, says Robert Mueller, a San Francisco-based labor attorney who has represented more than 2,000 employees, many of whom were targets of despotic bosses.
And you don’t have to quit your job. If you’re going to deal with the problem, you have to accept the sad reality that workplace bullying is prevalent because companies allow it. “It’s institutionalized abuse,” says Mueller. “There ought to be rules and a code of conduct that prohibits bullying behavior.”
So whether you’re a rank-and-file employee, IT developer or a senior project manager, you have no …
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