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Keep them on side

Former Labour sources described a culture where councillors acted as ‘Mafia bosses’ and told their constituents that they could ‘do anything for them’ to keep them on side.

They told the Mail: ‘Rotherham Council is horrendously corrupt. There is a large Asian contingency and a strong Labour vote among the ethnic community so they may have turned a blind eye to things to keep their votes.’

- Crime tsar quits the Labour Party, DailyMail.co.uk, August 27, 2017.

3. Employees can help manage a bad boss and avoid messy personality clashes, according to behavioural experts.

There are many reasons why bosses have difficult relationships with their staff, says psychologist Dr Steven Saunders.

In some cases, he says, managers have been promoted for the wrong reasons (e.g. because they have served the business well, not because of their people management skills); or they might be “a little soft” and not possess the “toughness” required for their role; some are just not on the same page as their employees (e.g. because of a poorly thought-out incentive scheme); others might be affected by issues outside of work, or simply under too much pressure.

Bosses with poor management skills can be imprecise about their expectations of employees, inconsistent in their actions, critical and slow to praise, or driven by ego.

But both bosses and employees need to remember that their relationship is mutually interdependent, and employees shouldn't just take a passive role, Saunders says in a Robert Half podcast.