Your bullying boss really is an idiot

摘要

Got a bully for a boss? Take solace in research showing that leaders who feel incompetent really do lash out to temper their own inferiority.rnWhen bosses feel they can't legitimately show superiority and competence, they take people down a notch or two, says Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.rnTo see if a bruised ego can cause aggression. Fast and his colleague Serena Chen manipulated people's sense of power and self-worth by asking them to write about occasions when they felt either empowered or impotent and then either competent or incompetent.