Female Boss a Bully?

According to a report by the Daily Mail in, “Stressed Out and Angry: How The Modern Female Boss Became A Bully” (12.5.11), a survey by the British Association of Anger Management (BAAM) found that of their respondents:

• 20% of female bosses admit to shouting or being verbally
  abusive at work, and
• 10% of women executives admit to blaming and shaming colleagues when things go wrong.

According to BAAM’s director, Mike Fisher, “inability to deal with stress” was a key factor in lashing out at colleagues.

Verbal abuse, shouting, blaming and shaming is very disruptive to the worklife (and often homelife) of individuals and to the workplace in general.

On the upside, the vast majority of women in the study did not bully their colleagues, though those that did can make life miserable for their colleagues.