Having Trouble at Work? Blame Your Parents
Well, I'll be. Researchers have found a link between how you parent -- and how you behave in the workplace. Now, I don't think that means, since you give your kids a time-out when they're misbehaving, that you make your employees sit in a corner and think about what they've done, when they don't do the job you want. But a new study finds that the boss-employee relationship is similar to parent-child relationships, according to newswise.com. And if you're an employee having trouble with our boss, there’s a chance that your parents might share some of the blame, claims Dr. Peter Harms, a University of Alabama researcher. “It seems cliché, but, once again, we end up blaming mom for everything in life,” says Harms while laughing. “It really is about both parents, but because mothers are typically the primary caregivers of the children, they usually have more influence on their children.” In studying manager-employee relationships in the workplace,