More than 5,700 workers participated in a national study that explored TV and the workplace. Workers found striking similarities between their real live bosses and TV characters and personas. Learn how these selections translate to the everyday workplace.
Did you ever watch TV and found one of the characters eerily familiar? More than 5,700 workers participated in a national study by CareerBuilder.com, conducted by Harris Interactive, exploring TV and the workplace. From today's primetime hits to yesterday's classics, workers found striking similarities between their real life bosses and TV characters and personas.
When asked which TV boss most reminds them of their own boss, the most popular responses from workers included:
To shed some light on how the respondents' selections translate to the day-to-day experiences of the workplace, Rosemary Haefner, Vice President of Human Resources at CareerBuilder.com, points to the following traits often associated with these characters/personas:
If you are a boss, you should identify type of boss you want to be. Then, inquire with your employees about which TV boss they find most similar to you. This has the potential to be a fun and insightful exercise that may reveal opportunities for personal improvement.
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 5,727 US employees, (employed full-time; not selfemployed; with no involvement in hiring decisions), ages 18 and over within the United States between June 1 and June 13, 2007. Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.
With a pure probability sample of 5,727, one could say with a ninety-five percent probability that the overall results have a sampling error of +/-1.3 percentage points. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is higher and varies. However that does not take other sources of error into account. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
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