New Site To Protect Organizations From Difficult Bosses

Badbossology.com is a new and completely free site that helps both management and staff deal with difficult bosses by providing key news, resources and useful discussion in a user-friendly weblog format. Site assists business leaders with morale, turnover and profitability.

BOSTON, MA (PRWEB) April 6, 2004 -- A Gallup survey of over 1,000,000 employees found that the most prevalent cause for people leaving is their immediate supervisor and that poorly managed workgroups are an average of 50% less productive and 44% less profitable than well managed groups. A new web site (http://www.badbossology.com) provides news and resources to protect both people and corporations. Said Co-Founder Gary Lahey, "Badbossology.com takes a responsible balanced approach, devoid of ranting and 'Boss from Hell' stories and is completely free for businesses of all sizes - from small to medium-sized enterprises to Fortune 500 companies."

The site provides continually updated news and resources in an intuitive, blog-style user interface. Badbossology.com highlights material from sources such as The Chicago Tribune, CNNMoney.com, Fast Company, The Harvard Business School, and the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com, as well as US and international government sites. The resource topics include: "Email, Internet and Privacy," Employee Rights & Legal," "For Bosses, Execs & Boards," "Office Politics & Interpersonal," and "Workplace Psychology." A comprehensive listing of proven books is also available.

Badbossology.com provides several features for organizations:
- Vault: users can "bookmark" individual news or resource links along with their notes and action items in a secure repository for fast future reference.
- Discussion Forums: visitors can take part in management and employee discussion forums to post comments and questions for others.
- Tell A Friend: users can easily email news or resource links to a business colleague.
- "Badbossology Headlines:" visitors can receive a concise Newsletter that highlights key news and resources from the US and around the world via email or RSS feed.

Companies can benefit from all of the site's content and especially from the resources for bosses, executives and board members, and from the management discussion forum. And the following excerpt from the site reflects its balanced approach: "We want to go on the record about the importance of supporting and acknowledging good bosses. No one is perfect so we shouldn't expect perfection from a boss. Bosses are often juggling numerous and sometimes intense stressors themselves - some of them we are aware of and often many we are not."

Since Badbossology.com is completely free for all businesses from small to medium-sized enterprises to Fortune 500 companies, corporations are being asked to participate in the site's sponsorship program. "There are three main benefits for our sponsors," said Co-Founder Ian Donen. "Internally, corporate leaders and human resource executives can demonstrate their commitment to protect staff to not only their employees but also their bosses. Externally, companies can generate goodwill by visibly showing their commitment to protecting their employees to their communities, business partners and shareholders. And they can also realize business objectives by having a direct link to their website, products or services."

For further information, please contact pr@badbossology.com, visit http://www.badbossology.com or call Gary Lahey at 617-904-1717.
###