Job Interviews - How to Spot Toxic Management

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"48% of managers hadn’t received any management training in the previous 12 months and 33% of companies did not offer any training at all."  How much does your business offer?

“Bad management can originate in a structure that does not allow better behaviour. A “toxic” manager is rarely alone in a company. They are tolerated by the organization, if not supported outright. These kinds of practices can be found at other levels within the organization, the bad manager being only one active piece of a harmful system.” - some executives protect employees and ostracize those who - in the best interests of the company - point out the damaging behaviour.

“to identify gangrenous companies, it is worth looking at staff turnover” - one of the reasons to work with executives understanding this & absenteeism early in acquisition assessment or turnarounds

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