Jimmy Fallon fiasco | Bosses are ambassadors of HR policy - don't let them forget it!

Bad bosses are a trope of the working world.

Employees have long moaned about their managers and their negative relationships with them, while workers today are reporting that their strained rapport with their boss as a leading cause of them moving to a different company. Unlike relationships with colleagues, an employee’s relationship with a boss colours their entire perception and attitude to work.

Out of everyone in an organisation bosses are the stewards of a company’s values and HR policies. Therefore, if you get your bosses right, everything else should fall into place. In the same vein, if you get these positions filled by the wrong people, this can spread toxicity in the organisation, which is bad for a collection of reasons.

This idea has been highlighted in the public sphere through the scrutinising of American talk show host Jimmy Fallon. Recently, the TV personality and host was accused by 16 employees who work on his show of creating a toxic work environment.