How To Deal With A Difficult Boss: A Complete Guide To Dealing With Nasty, Demanding, Annoying and Crazy Bosses

By Pierce Norris

What is an employee to do when a boss attacks or demeans or holds the reins too tight or is unscrupulous and unfair? The very thought of trying to cope with such bosses makes plenty of employees become apprehensive.

Disconcerted, demoralized, discombobulated - even mildly depressed - they find it difficult to deal with those who buffalos or weasels their way into their lives. They simply hate - without trying to make sense of a messy situation.

In this book, we're going to tackle the main problems in professional lives. How to handle god-awful managers and horrible bosses!

They are difficult to please, get along with, and demand too much! It seems as though that boss was put there to torment you. He's the devil incarnate!

But how do we deal with him or her? What steps and strategies can you take to get that difficult boss off your backs!

If your boss is making you start to hate your job and dread going to work, then this book is for you!

You'll learn all about the inner workings of your Jerk-of-a-Boss's personality, and what makes him/her treat you the way he/she does, and how this can be entirely detrimental to all aspects of your life.

You will also learn how to interact with your boss in a way that makes things much easier and actually benefits you both, therefore making your work environment completely tolerable again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pierce Norris
• Release date: Apr 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9780582657076

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BY

PIERCE NORRIS

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Written By PIERCE NORRIS

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No part of this book should be considered legal or professional advice. Take everything I say in this book as my opinion and regard it as entertainment. You are responsible for your action by acting on the thoughts and views shared in this book.

INTRODUCTION

How huge is the issue ?

A tough boss is the biggest hurdle most employees face in their professional life. The unmanaged effects of a daily encounter can wreak havoc on a person's career, worth, health, and general well-being. We will, however, examine two aspects: health and economic consequences.

There is hardly a stronger and more pervasive stressor in the workplace than a difficult boss. A recent study by Mental Health America found that employment problems were the third most common source of stress in American life. SkillSoft, a leader in online learning, commissioned a third-party research to review ten top stressors and irritants at work. Six of the ten irritants are; managers who abruptly change what they want, lack of management support, pressure from superiors, feeling put upon by managers, management interruptions, and management harassment - are related to the action or behavior of the boss. All of these problems can be resolved in a healthy relationship with an effective manager.

Let us use an MHA fact sheet to consider the following health effects of stress:

i. Forty-three percent of adults suffer from the negative effects of stress on health, and stress has been linked to the six leading causes of death: lung disease, accidents, heart disease, cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide.

ii. Chronic stress can double the risk of a heart attack.

iii. Chronic stress weakens the immune system and makes people vulnerable to many diseases.

iv. 50-80% of every medical issue that is reported to doctors have a strong emotional or stress-related component.

In short, a difficult boss is a source of a high level of stress, and years, if not months, of ineffective management of the relationship with him or her, can seriously affect a person's health.

The impact of a difficult manager on an organization is just as great. In their review of two Gallup Organization studies, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman suggest that companies look to their managers first when they have problems with their bottom line. The relationship with a problematic boss is the main reason why employees leave their employment. Turnover costs are estimated to be between 20 to 50% of the total remuneration for a post. This allows organizations to measure the direct effect of a difficult boss on the bottom line.

Stress is, among other things, a causal and catalytic factor in mental illness. Neuroscientists at the Mclean Hospital and the Harvard Medical School have shown that long-term exposure to stress hormones such as corticotropin and