Bad boss can increase employee heart risk

[The Straight Story]

Bad boss can increase employee heart risk

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The longer a person has a "poor" manager, the higher his or her risk of suffering a heart attack within a 10-year period, a researcher in Sweden found.

Anna Nyberg, a postgraduate at the medical university Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, said her doctoral thesis is based on data from almost 20,000 employees in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland and Italy, working in a range of fields, such as the forest or hotel industries.

Nyberg and professor Tores Theorell of Stockholm University's Stress Research Institute compared levels of self-rated stress, health, sick leave and emotional exhaustion with how subjects perceived their managers' leadership in terms of certain positive and negative criteria, such as inspirational, supportive and good at delegating or authoritarian, dishonest and distant.

The researchers also looked at the effects of managerial leadership in relation to whether employees change jobs, quit due to poor health, or become unemployed.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/11/02/Bad-boss-can-increase-employee-heart-risk/UPI-62421257205052/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. WELLLLL, DUHHHHH.....

As they say on FARK, from the N.S. Sherlock Research Institute....

I've had hypertension for twenty years and an exaggerated startle reflex for a long time too.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. I made the mistake once of meeting with a manager an hour before a doctor's appointment.

This particular manager was a micromanaging lunatic, and this particular meeting wasn't one of our better ones.

My blood pressure was still through the roof by the time I got to the doctor's office. Far enough off the charts from my previous numbers that they thought they had better wire me up to the EKG machine. Thankfully, the extreme numbers were an anomaly, but I was on medication for a while, and a natural alternative after that. Numbers are good now, but then I'm no longer working with the manager from Hell either.

Internalizing stress is not healthy. So if someone's such an asshole that you can't work for them (and you have no chance of getting them canned) it might be the healthy thing to leave. Or transfer somewhere else in the company, if possible.

[Skittles]

4. micromanagers are the worst

nothing like a chronic feeling you're not trusted by your own boss to do your job to set the blood pressure in upward motion

[no_hypocrisy]

3. My systolic was 200 when I was working for my last boss.