Both unbelievable and sad but true at the same time. Harkens back to the all too true (but presumably fake) quote: "All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Bad bosses get promoted, not punished?
In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.
"The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable -- remarkably disturbing,"
The authors advocated immediate intervention by industry chiefs to stop fledgling office authoritarians from rising up the ranks.
"The leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem."
"As with any sort of cancer, the best alternative to prevention is early detection," they wrote.
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