76% Say HR Not Helpful With Bad Bosses

76% Of 1,505 visitors who participated in a survey at Badbossology.com said their Human Resource Department is not helpful in protecting employees from bad bosses and only 1% said HR is very helpful.

Toronto ON (PRWEB) July 22, 2004 - Based on a recent North-American wide survey conducted at Badbossology.com, it appears that many people do not believe that their HR Department helps protect employees from difficult bosses. Specifically, between June 12th and July 21th, of the 1,505 people who completed the survey on its site (http://www.badbossology.com), 76% believe that Human Resources staff are not helpful and only 1% believe that they are very helpful. Said Co-founder Gary Lahey, "Given the importance of Human Resources today, we encourage people to forward these results to their HR departments as well as managers and executives. If they feel that it may be risky to forward this information themselves, it can be sent anonymously from our web site (http://www.badbossology.com/i4780-p247)."

Bad bosses are a big problem in Corporate America. Other surveys indicate that approximately 40% of employees have had to deal with a bad boss, and a Gallup Organization study of over 1,000,000 employees found that if a company is losing good people, more than any other single reason, the cause is their immediate supervisor: Gallup also found poorly managed workgroups are an average of 50% less productive and 44% less profitable than well managed groups.

A discussion forum based on these results ("Why Do Many Say HR Not Helpful With Bad Bosses?") is available on the site (http://www.badbossology.com/i4745-c77). Further, a follow-up survey is currently being conducted on "How helpful is your Union in protecting employees from bad bosses?" and people can participate by visiting the site's home page (http://www.badbossology.com).

Badbossology.com itself is designed to protect both people and companies from bad bosses, and all of its content and services are available without any fees. It provides continually updated material in an intuitive, blog-style user interface. It takes a responsible balanced approach, devoid of ranting and 'Boss from Hell' stories, and also provides key resources for bosses, executives and board members (http://www.badbossology.com/c68). A "Vault" or secure repository is provided so visitors can bookmark items along with personal notes for fast reference. And material is drawn from sources such as The Chicago Tribune, CNNMoney.com, Fast Company, The Harvard Business School, and the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com.

For further information, please contact pr@badbossology.com, visit http://www.badbossology.com or call Gary Lahey at 416-201-9730.

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