Boss Man Blues

http://whyfiles.org/shorties/121nastyboss/index.html

Kelly Zellars, an assistant professor of management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte:

Abusive managers, she says, make subordinates less likely to go the extra mile. The underlings won’t speak well of the organization to outsiders, will be less likely to help co-workers, and more likely to kvetch over trivialities, not to mention more likely to find another berth, I mean job.

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Subordinates of abusive bosses were less willing to extend themselves. But why?