Poor Leadership Poses A Health Risk At Work


“Perceived poor managerial leadership increases not only the amount of sick leave taken at a workplace, but also the risk of sickness amongst employees later on in life. The longer a person has had a “poorer” manager, the higher his or her risk of for example suffering a heart attack within a ten-year period, according to a new thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.”

Read more here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102121626.htm

Somehow this doesn’t really come as a big surprise and I think it should be taken seriously, especially with the overall sad state of management these days.

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