MAIL ONLINE: How a toxic boss can ruin your career: Leaders with psychopathic traits could transform you into an office bully

  • Abigail Phillips

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A research team from the University of Manchester's Business School asked 1,200 participants about their own well-being, and their relationship with their boss.

The people asked consisted of workers from a variety of industries across a number of different countries.

The researchers found those who work for leaders who display these traits had lower job satisfaction and scored higher on a clinical measure of depression.

Period6 Jan 2017

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  • TitleHow a toxic boss can ruin your career: Leaders with psychopathic traits could transform you into an office bully
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletMail Online
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date6/01/17
    DescriptionYour relationship with your boss could be changing your personality.

    It's well known that people who work for bosses with psychopathic and narcissistic traits naturally feel more depressed because of their bosses' behaviour.

    But a new study suggests these people are also more likely to engage in undesirable behaviours at work, and their bosses could be turning them into bullies and ruining their reputation.
    Producer/AuthorAbigail Beal
    URLwww.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4092054/A-toxic-boss-ruin-career-Leaders-psychopathic-narcissistic-tendencies-make-employees-behave-badly-work.htm
    PersonsAbigail Phillips
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Keywords

  • psychology
  • employment
  • psychosis