{"id":456,"date":"2017-05-08T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2017-05-08T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T18:14:01","slug":"boss-company-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/boss-company-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 3 People Say Their Boss Hurts Company Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Company culture doesn\u2019t just happen. It starts at the top.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why bad bosses are such a bummer. In failing to set clear goals, playing favorites, or being passive-aggressive, they\u2019re dismantling the very thing they should be building. And no one benefits from an environment like that, though plenty of people deal with it every day.<\/p>\n

In a query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a> of more than 1,000 tech employees, one in three respondents said they feel their boss hurts company culture. Those in administrative positions felt the strongest (52% said they felt that way about their boss), compared to those in HR (where only 21% expressed the same).<\/p>\n

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So, what makes a bad boss? Separate surveys by Comparably have shown that communication is the number one\u00a0quality<\/a> people want their bosses to improve, followed next by accountability and positivity. All three qualities are essential to company culture — when they\u2019re in place, people tend to enjoy the jobs they do and feel that they have a sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

Right now, fewer than half of workers<\/a> say their company leaders do what\u2019s needed to retain them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Company culture doesn\u2019t just happen. It starts at the top. That\u2019s why bad bosses are such a bummer. In failing to set clear goals, playing favorites, or being passive-aggressive, they\u2019re dismantling the very thing they should be building. And no one benefits from an environment like that, though plenty of people deal with it every … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[46,11,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}