This will be music to many a partners’ ears: You can be yourself. That means you can skip the sensitivity training, the anger management sessions and those damn yoga poses. That’s right, you can go back to yelling, screaming, humiliating and brutalizing your underlings. Hell, yeah, it’s time to get back in touch with your inner Donald.
What brings this jolt of jolly news? According to new research by two faculty members at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, employees are no more likely to stick with a good boss as a crummy one. (The study’s authors, Ravi Gajendran and Deepak Somava, surveyed over 700 employees at a large multinational IT firm.) Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Gajendran and Somava report:
Conventional wisdom says that people don’t leave companies, they leave bad bosses. Yet our research — and growing evidence from other leadership studies — finds that employees leave both good and bad bosses at almost comparable rates.
