A boss can really make or break a workplace. A good boss can make a work environment fun, friendly, and positively challenging. A bad boss, however... they make going to work a nightmare every day.

There are multiple types of bad bosses who lack the skills and emotional intelligence to lead well. Employees can deal with micromanagers, narcissistic leaders, or incompetent bosses. Setting ...

Debra Corey is Chief Pay it Forward Officer at DebCo HR, helping companies develop great leaders and HR programs to drive engagement. You likely wouldn't be surprised if I told you that nearly 100% of ...

Most of us will work for a really bad boss at some point in our lives, perhaps more than one. Research by the Harris Poll bears this out, showing that more than 70 percent of workers have had at least ...

Work long enough, and you are bound to have a bad manager. Unfortunately, they do not operate in just one manner. They can be aggressive, neglectful, ingratiating or just plain inept. And not all of ...

If you're constantly being undermined, overwhelmed and ignored by your manager, you might have a toxic boss. A toxic boss demoralizes the people who report to them, stripping them of their sense of ...

So you hate your boss. But who at one point didn't? But that doesn't mean you need to take the heat everyday. Most people will tell you to find another job, but that's an even riskier venture and you ...

Bad bosses in the movies are super entertaining. Think of the cold stare of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, the oversized ego and even larger insensitivity of Michael Gary Scott in The ...

We've all worked for one, and they usually all have at least one of these in common. Is your boss incompetent with no real skills? We've all worked for one at one time or another — the boss who very ...

Ah, yes. A terrible, idiot, no good boss. An affliction that has happened—or is currently happening—to almost all of us at some point in our working careers. I have had the great fortune (or ...

Outside of low pay and insufficient opportunities for growth, one of the most influential reasons employees decide to leave their jobs is a bad boss, at least according to a 2021 Pew Research Center ...