This paper discusses about how different bosses are in a business. In a world of today, people search for jobs while others already have the jobs of their desire as some land in jobs for the sake of money. Throughout a professional career, people encounter different types of bosses. Each of them has their quirks, their processes, and their mentalities, and for one to survive you got to learn how to deal with each of them. The different types of bosses are always created by the tough times (Scully, Judith A., et al. 59). The bosses one has to learn to survive under include; the hands-off boss, the micromanager, the buddy, the shiny object chaser and the apathetic boss.

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Types of Bosses
In a world of today people search for jobs while others already have the jobs of their
desire as some land in jobs for the sake of money. Throughout the course of professional career,
people encounter different types of bosses. Each of them have their own quirks, their own
processes, and their own mentalities, and for one to survive you got to learn how to deal with
each of them. The different types of bosses are always created by the tough times (Scully, Judith
A., et al. 59). The bosses one has to learn to survive under include; the hands-off boss, the
micromanager, the buddy, the shiny object chaser and the apathetic boss.
The hands-off boss takes pride in giving the workers freedom and flexibility. The type of
boss who won’t interfere with the worker’s projects but at the same time give limited direction
with which to start. Working with a hands-off boss needs a lot communication whereby the
worker has to ask whenever he/she needs help from the boss.
There comes the micromanager boss, a tough one for anyone to deal with who likes to
dig into details, stepping on the employee’s toes on occasion by telling the worker what to do
and how to do it, sometimes what seems like every minute of every day. The employee can voice
an opinion, but the micromanager is unlikely to change. To work under micromanager, it’s better
to keep distance for the tasks one care most about, give feedback, and try to build more trusts.

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The buddy boss wants to be friend with the employee in the workplace. He /she will
always greet with a cheery disposition, will be soft when it comes feedback or advice, and won’t
set strict deadlines. On one hand, one gets more flexibility in the tasks and actions, but on the
other, one will have less constructive critics on which to build the abilities. Here one will have to
ask feedback directly and may need to work up the discipline to set more limits and goals.
The shiny object chaser is another type of boss who lacks focus, or at least consistency in
focus who will always start the week demanding one set of goals or working objectives, but by
mid-week changes the mind. Shiny object chaser has a lot of energy, but priorities shift-
sometimes radically-far too often for any reasonable person to keep up. It is hard to deal with the
boss mentioned above, but the best approach is to frequently communicate about priorities,
hedge the bets by only investing fully when sure a priority will stick, and not taking personally
when the boss changes the mind.
Here now comes the apathetic boss who shares some similarities with the hands-off boss,
but is somewhat more destructive in her processes. Whereas the hands-off boss attempts to
empower employees by giving them more liberties and less interference, the apathetic boss truly
doesn’t care about the job or the position as a manager. The apathetic boss is hard to
communicate with, and different to even employee’s greatest successes and failure. The best
approach is employee to gather feedback a lot much and keep focus on own position.
It is good to note that no one type of boss is inherently bad or good. Sometimes it may be
annoying to deal with a micromanager or frustrating to keep up with shiny object chaser, but
there are some advantages to these styles one may not see and they don’t necessitate that their
practitioners are bad workers. Therefore one needs to cope up with their bosses.

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Work Cited
Scully, Judith A., et al. “Tough times make tough bosses: A meso analysis of CEO leader
behavior” The leadership Quarterly 5.1 (1994): 59-83.