Chances are most of us have already found ourselves in a situation in which we’ve had a superior yell and belittle us whatever the reason, meaning, regardless of whether we did something wrong or not. Until not long ago, researchers believed bully bosses were so aggressive because they wanted to hold on to their position of power no matter the cost. A recent study, though, comes to show that self-perceived incompetence and aggressiveness actually go hand in hand, as E! Science News points out.
Bosses tend to bully employees not because they firmly believe no other method could work to boost productivity, or because this is their way of marking their territory, researchers have learned. Bosses bully their employees because they see themselves as incompetent, and perhaps not even able to math the employees’ performances, for which reason they feel the need to be constantly putting them down, the aforementioned publication says, citing the findings of the study.
“During role-playing sessions, study participants who felt their egos were under threat would go so far as to needlessly sabotage an underling's chances of winning money. In another test, participants who felt inadequate would request that a subordinate who gave a wrong answer to a test be notified by a loud obnoxious horn, even though they had the option of choosing silence or a quiet sound.†E! Science News writes. -
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