Shelves of books have been written about how to manage employees effectively. But when it comes to advising employees about how to manage their bosses — there aren’t many.
This imbalance masks a clear truth: The boss-employee relationship is a two-way street. Employees are just as responsible for establishing a good relationship with their managers as those managers are for doing the same for their team.
While that’s true in a perfect world, reality is often quite different. Many employees find themselves working for bad managers, and that makes managing-up strategies important, says Marie McIntyre, a workplace psychologist and long-time consultant for
