WHEN GOOD BOSSES GO BAD

摘要

I once worked for a boss, who, in a fit of pique, threw a wastepaper basket at my head. This was deemed entirely acceptable, and there would have been little point going to HR - or 'the organisational police' as Professor Furnham splendidly terms them in this comprehensively researched book (the reader is left to judge whether this is an accolade or an insult). On another occasion this same boss came to physical blows in the boardroom, without apparent harm to his career. Admittedly this was before today's 360-degree peer appraisals and emphasis on corporate governance, and the same incident might have had a different outcome in our enlightened workplaces of 2015.