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Volume 8, Issue 4
1 July 1996
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Employee Counselling Today
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Reading your boss

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Jay T. Knippen
Professor of Management, The University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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Thad B. Green
Business Author and Consultant, resident in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Author & Article Information
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5614
Print ISSN: 0955-8217
© Company
1996
Employee Counselling Today (1996) 8 (4): 15–18.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13665629610121623

Suggests why anticipating your boss’s reactions is important: it helps you to perform better, keeps you out of trouble and makes your job more pleasant. Proposes a four‐step process for understanding your boss (select a framework, understand and determine behaviour styles, and decide how to work with the boss’s style) and discusses each step in detail.

Keywords: Individual behaviour, Management styles, Managers
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1996
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