Female bosses a nightmare to work for, survey finds

 HERALD SUN

They are hormonal, incapable of leaving their personal lives at home and only too happy to talk about their staff behind their backs.



Female bosses are a nightmare to work for, a survey of employees concludes. And it is not just men who think so.

Two-thirds of women preferred a male boss because their straight-talking, to-the-point attitude made them easier to deal with.

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They were also much less likely to have a hidden agenda, suffer mood swings or get involved in office politics, workers said.

About 3000 men and women were questioned for the research, and three quarters of men agreed they'd rather work for a man than a woman.

A quarter of women accused female bosses of backstabbing and bringing their personal lives into the office.

And a third said women with power were loose cannons who often felt threatened by colleagues.

David Brown, of online recruitment firm www.UKJobs.net, which commissioned the research, said: "Incredibly, both men and women are in total agreement that men make better bosses - 63 per cent of women and 75 per cent of men.

"This indicates that while women are more than capable of progressing to a management role, some lack some of the key skills required to be a good boss.

"No one is suggesting women aren't intelligent enough to be in senior positions, far from it, but perhaps some need to be more approachable and less competitive."

Other negative assessments included women being too cliquey, too competitive and spending too long worrying about appearance.

Forty per cent said men were more able to distance themselves from politics and bitching, and 14 per cent said they found them more reasonable than women.

Mr Brown said: "We shouldn't forget a third of those polled did say women are better to work for."

The study found that the average worker has had two female and three male bosses.

A third have left a job because they didn't like their boss, and of these, the majority of women claimed they left because of a female manager.

SOURCE : HERALD SUN ONLINE