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I Hate My Boss

Toxic Relationships in the Workplace

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Alice loved working for the Achristos Corporation until her boss moved to another organization. All the executives at Achristos, including her former boss, had been pleased with her and positive about her future in the company. However, all that changed when her new boss arrived. He viewed Alice very differently. The old chemistry was well and truly gone and he openly disliked the team he inherited. Within 12 months, he had systematically replaced most of Alice’s colleagues and implemented a scorched earth policy toward any initiatives he hadn’t originated himself. It didn’t matter if a project had obvious value to the organization; if it wasn’t his brainchild, he wrote it off.

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    2013, 142-country Gallup “State of the Global Workplace.”

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Kets de Vries, M.F.R. (2017). I Hate My Boss. In: Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45162-6_1

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