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Bad Managers Raise Risk of Heart Disease

A Swedish study has found that the more workers feel that their bosses are incompetent, the more the workers' risk for heart attacks, heart disease, angina and death from heart related causes rises. This risk increases the longer one works in the same stressful environment.

This type of correlational study can never show causality... It can only show that bad bosses and heart trauma seem to occur together, like death and taxes.

The researchers define a good boss as one having consideration for employees, setting clear goals, setting realistic expectations, communicating and giving feedback, managing change, including people in decision-making and delegating authority. A bad boss tends to lack these qualities.

Anna Nyberg, a psychologist and doctoral student at the Karolinska Institute's Department

23 Comments

Here is the special topic,please give your opinion about it.

14 months ago

The worst thing you can do is simply to do nothing, hoping the problems will get resolved. No job, boss, or company is worth losing your health, sanity, or self-esteem. If you can't find a way to resolve these issues and/or your boss simply will never change his/her behavior, you should immediately start working your network and begin looking for a new job -- within or outside the organization. Again, if you love the company, a transfer might be the best option -- but keep in mind that your boss might be as evil as to sabotage that transfer. And try not to quit before you find a new job, but again, if work just becomes too unbearable, you may need to consider quitting to save yourself.

14 months ago

nice normative shearing

14 months ago

Very nice post good work keep it up

14 months ago

Thanks my friends for your comments.

14 months ago

nice post..........

14 months ago

hahaha.. so need to exercise to be away of heart problems

14 months ago

its awesome like that

13 months ago

Thanks to all for their comments.

12 months ago

very nice post great work

11 months ago

good info you shared here about managers
thank you very much ..

9 months ago

Thanks Emma, Sunaina ji and Maryam for your comments.

9 months ago

That was wonderful sir..i almost laugh when i saw your post because i remember my former boss haha..anyway nice post sir

8 months ago

This article is the first of its kind I read here and hit straight to home for me. I could write a book about bad management and the effects it has on the employees! You have to get a hold of the situation before it gets a hold of you. Something I had learned many years ago on the job. You have a great article here and I would love to expound on it but do not have the time right now.

Keep up the great work. Blessings friend!

8 months ago

Thanks Mona for your detailed views and hope you will spare some time to write down your experience.

3 months ago

Very nice post,thanks for sharing.

8 months ago

You are welcome Mohammad Iqubal.

3 months ago

Very interesting post! Oh...the stress! 5*****

3 months ago

You are welcome Lina.

3 months ago

An awesome post about heart disease.

3 months ago