Bad leaders cause their team health problems
Stumble It!BBC News reports on work by a team of Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University which shows that "inconsiderate bosses not only make work stressful, they may also increase the risk of heart disease for their employees."
The study suggested that "managers should give employees clear work objectives and sufficient power in relation to their responsibilities" ie clarity and autonomy which resonates with bioteams concept.
To read the full article Bad bosses may damage your heart
About Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson is an expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books:
Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs
The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks
Ken writes the highly popular bioteams blog which has over 500 articles on all aspects of bioteams (aka organizational biomimicry) - in other words how human groups can learn from nature's best teams.
Ken is also founder of an exciting European technology company Swarmteams which provides unique patent-pending bioteaming technologies for all shapes and sizes of groups, social networks, business clusters, virtual/mobile communities and enterprises. Swarmteams enables groups to be more responsive and agile by fully integrating their mobile phones and the web with bioteam working techniques. The latest Swarmteams implementation is SwarmTribes which helps musicians and bands form a unique collaboration with their fans for mutual benefit.
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I think this outcome has been known for quite a while. There was a similar study in Whitehall quite some time back.
For me, what is interesting is the unspoken assumptions of the Beeb - that managers "give" work to . . . Bay Jordan also blogged today about this http://tinyurl.com/6juflx
Posted by: Jo | November 25, 2008 2:11 PM
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