On October 18, 2009
Weekend Round-Up
Telegraph Why bad bosses like Basil are also nastiest There’s a reason Basil Fawlty bullied Manuel. Aggressive bosses who are overwhelmed by their own inabilities are more likely to lash out than competent leaders, says a study by the University of Southern California published in the Psychological Science. It seems the combination of power and incompetence makes a nasty cocktail. In an experiment where volunteers had to punish mistakes by using a range of horn blasts, the lowest at 10 decibels, the highest at 130 decibels, those who felt the most powerful but least able were apt to go for the ear splitting blast. Volunteers who felt neither powerful nor capable used quieter forms of punishment, as did confident volunteers….
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