careerbuilder.com: Eight Sticky Boss Situations and How to Handle Them
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"If you’re more excited that your boss is out sick with the flu than you are about your new raise, you’re in good company. In workplaces throughout the country, difficult bosses are ruining morale and making life just downright unpleasant. Whether they refuse to give you time off or they expect you to be their mother, bad bosses can put you in an awkward position..." 080117
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Slate: Who's the Boss? How do I handle an employee who makes nasty comments when I can hear them? "After many years away from home, I decided to work for my family's manufacturing company. I am the boss's son, but work as hard as I can. My office is right next to the factory floor, with a Plexiglas window looking out to the floor..." 071201
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True Careers: Connecting Counts: Why Building Relationships at Work is Important to Your Career "The number one job skill of the 21st century is the ability to build and keep working relationships. Since you are likely to change jobs several times during the course of your career, developing and maintaining a network of relationships is very important. The best and easiest place to start building your network is at the office..." 071119
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CareerJournal.com: Personal Boundaries Shrink As Firms Punish Bad Behavior "As with politicians, today's ambitious business managers need to be aware that their personal behavior will be as closely scrutinized and judged as their work performance. Corporate directors are far less willing than they were a few years ago to look the other way if an executive does something that threatens to embarrass a company..." 071016
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Yahoo! hotjobs: Turning the Tables on Negativity "...[Many] women and men who say they're having trouble reaching their career goals. They express serious doubt about their abilities to accomplish what they really want to do..."
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MSN Careers: Stop Being So Nice to Your Co-workers "Do nice guys finish last at work, too? A study published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology says yes. Dr. Nikos Bozionelos of the University of Sheffield in England researched personality and career success and found that white-collar workers who were the most agreeable, conscientious and sensitive to the needs of others were less likely to be promoted..."
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UC Berkeley and NBER: Peers at Work "...the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process..."
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careerbuilder.com: Working With You is Killing Me! "Has one of your co-workers made your life a living hell? Does your boss or employee make your blood boil or your stomach churn?..."
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About.com: Bad to the Bone: Dealing With a Bad Boss "You're weary. You're frustrated. You're unhappy. You're demotivated. Your interaction with your boss leaves you cold. He's a bully, intrusive, controlling, picky or petty. He takes credit for your work, never provides positive feedback and misses each meeting he schedules with you. Or he caves immediately under pressure and fails to support you in accomplishing your job..." 071019
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MSN Lifestyle: Five Secrets of a Happy Marriage: Essential Marriage Tips from Real Therapists "o feel loved and nurtured, we must believe deep down that our partner is really there for us. That sounds simple, but it's far more complicated than most couples realize..."
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