Do you feel as if your boss never listens to you? Even when she has assigned you to research a topic, she winds up brushing off your counsel and doing her own thing. Or the boss asks you about whether to spend more of the company’s money on an initiative that you’ve been following closely. You know the project is failing, you say so, but the boss ignores your input and spends another $200,000 of the firm’s money on the poorly-performing effort.
Kelly See, an assistant professor of management and organization at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, was curious about these sorts of scenarios, so she put together an in-depth study of the extent to which people in power take advice from knowledgeable colleagues. Together with NYU Stern’s Elizabeth Morrison, Naomi B. Rothman of Lehigh University and Jack B. Soll of Duke, See ran a research project over two-and-half-years that examined advice-taking in some 1,500 study participants. The conclusion: The more power managers have, the less likely they are to take advice. “Once you’re in a position of power, it tends to make you more confident in your decisions,” explains See….
Find out more at http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2011/08/24/bosses-dont-listen-now-theres-proof/
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