As of: March 17, 2024, 2:00 p.m
By: Carina Blumenroth
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You choose the job - but not the manager.
As an employee, you can be lucky or unlucky with your boss.
How do they recognize it?
Many employees spend a large part of their day at work and many of them are currently dissatisfied.
This is evident from the current
Gallup Engagement Index
.
According to this, over seven million people have internally quit.
Some employees then actually look for a new job.
The salary, lack of prospects or the manager are some reasons for termination.
But how do you actually recognize a bad boss?
Bad boss?
It affects job satisfaction
Do you have a good or a bad boss?
These signs will tell you.
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If you work under a bad boss, it can affect your overall job satisfaction.
You probably can't motivate yourself well to do the work and can't perform at your best.
In this context, your productivity deteriorates.
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Ten signs of a bad boss
Below you can read ten signs that make a bad boss.
Bad feedback:
If your boss is unable to give you proper feedback with reasons for your performance, but simply tells you that something wasn't good.
This means you have no chance of understanding your boss's opinion, nor can you develop further.
No acceptance:
Bad bosses gather yes-men around them, they don't listen to other people's ideas and keep any creativity and innovation down.
No appreciation:
You have done a good job, for example, gained a new customer or closed a difficult customer deal - you will not receive any feedback from your boss.
This can leave you feeling unseen.
Bad bosses don't show their employees any appreciation.
Focus on mistakes:
Your boss doesn't talk about what's going well, but he notices all the mistakes that he regularly draws your attention to.
Poor organization:
Your boss's planning leaves a lot to be desired, which means that some tasks have to be carried out under time pressure.
This can cause stress among employees.
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Lack of delegation:
Your boss has difficulty handing over tasks and may even have a controlling hand over you.
Lack of communication:
Decisions are made and poorly communicated to the team.
This leads to parts of the team not being carried along and unable to understand the new direction.
No decisions:
If your boss can't make decisions and delays them for a long time, it gets on the employees' nerves.
The boss shows that he cannot act confidently.
Constantly different opinions:
Work processes are quickly changed again before they can become established and show their benefits.
One way today and another way tomorrow.
This makes it difficult for a team to adjust to something.
Negative mood:
Your boss is always in a bad mood, no matter what happens.
As a result, he only focuses on things that aren't going well.
This quickly cools down the working atmosphere and causes employees to become frustrated.