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.
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