INTERVIEW: Is your boss a monster? Here's what to do.
Ben Tepper is professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University, and has been studying abusive bosses for 25 years. Though evidence suggests only about 10% of supervisors yell at employees, tell them they’re stupid, take credit for their successes or blame them for the boss’s failures – the effects of having an abusive boss are significant. In fact, In a new study, Professor Tepper and his colleagues examined circumstances under which employees will accept working for an abusive boss - and is there a difference between being an abusive boss and just a tough one.