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January 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) — If you’re unhappy at work, it may
be because your psychological needs aren’t being met by your manager or
company, a new study suggests.
Over-controlling bosses who use threats to motivate workers and
companies that don’t seem to value employees‘ contributions frustrate
people’s basic needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness (how you
relate to others), according to the researchers led by Dr. Nicolas Gillet
at the Universite Francois Rabelais in Tours, France.
This, in turn, can harm your well-being at work. And the way you feel
at work can account for more than a quarter of the differences in work
performance between individuals, the study authors said in a journal news
release.
They added that the potential economic impact of workplace well-being
means that the topic is receiving increasing attention.
For their study, the researchers had 1,118 workers at small, medium and
large companies complete questionnaires asking them what they thought
about their supervisors’ management style and how much support they felt
they received from their companies.
The more the workers felt their superior supported their autonomy, the
more their needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness were met, and
the happier and more satisfied they were. The same was true when workers
felt they had the support of their company.
Employees who said their supervisors were coercive, pressuring and
authoritarian, or believed their companies were non-supportive, felt their
needs weren’t being met and had lower levels of well-being.
The study was recently published online in the Journal of Business
and Psychology.
“Our study shows that both organizational and managerial factors have
an influence on satisfying or frustrating the basic psychological needs
for autonomy, competence and how we relate to others,” the researchers
said.
They concluded that “to satisfy employees’ needs, supervisors should
provide subordinates with options rather than use threats and deadlines, a
strategy which could improve their workforce’s well-being.”
More information
The American Psychological Association offers tips for managing your
boss.
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