I’m a clinical psych doctoral student. Before grad school, I worked in professional spaces for ~a decade, from law (paralegal) and marketing to tech startups and organizational change consulting. My experiences made me interested in toxic workplaces, and particularly abusive bosses. For my dissertation, I’m studying how the mistreatment women experience from supervisors at work mirrors the dynamics of intimate partner abuse. Can you relate? Consider participating in my survey.
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My time as a paralegal at a plaintiff-side employment law firm was when I started getting interested in this topic! There’s a lot of mistreatment. Sending you support!
Omg the gaslighting 🥲
An interesting further dynamic that could be beneficial for future research is the gender or gender identity of the supervisor, coming from someone whose experiences with toxic leadership was from a female attorney.
Thank you! While this study doesn’t specifically explore the gender of the supervisor, there is some other research in the field that does investigate abusive bosses who are women, and the different tactics which are more commonly used by men vs women perpetrators.