London, July 12 (ANI): A new study has shown that volatile relationships between managers and staff are sending people over the edge on a daily basis.
Professor Wayne Hochwarter has been studying the factors that cause hostility, stress and declining performance at work for many years, and said the problem is as serious as it ever was.
"We've got serious issues with the way we manage people and bring civility to the marketplace," the Daily Mail quoted him as telling BusinessNewsDaily.
"Managing the human animal isn't like running a table saw or using a computer," he added.
A professor at the Florida State University College of Business, his latest study paints an ugly picture of how poisoned the supervisor-employee relationship has become.
More than 40 percent of the 400 mid-level employees he surveyed said they wouldn't acknowledge their boss if they ran into each other on the street.
Another 32 percent indicated that they work for a 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' type and nearly a third - 29 percent - said their boss would "throw them under the bus" to save his or her job.
Hochwarter's research showed that workers enduring such circumstance are stressed both at work and at home, are less willing to exert effort for the company good, experience sleep disturbances, report declining levels of self-worth and suffer from a variety of additional quality-of-life maladies. (ANI)
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