Actor Steve Carell has screwed up a lot as boss Michael Scott in the US television series “The Office”.
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The failure of managers can severely damage companies and employees – sometimes even long after they have left the company. How to deal with this?
Wo Success, money, fame beckon, the tangible scandal is often not far away. Countless examples show this. A current one: Patricia Schlesinger, until August 2022 director of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) and chairwoman of ARD. Among other things, she was involved in a consultant affair, allegedly billed private dinner evenings at the expense of the RBB and was driven in a luxurious company car. The list of allegations is long – so it’s no wonder that she first resigned as chair of ARD and then resigned as director.
Bosses who abuse their power are everywhere. A brief look into the past shows this: there is, for example, Julian Reichelt, former boss of the Bild newspaper, who is accused of having sexual relations with employees who work for him; About a year earlier, an economic crime had shaken the country – the fintech Wirecard had boosted its balance sheets by 1.9 billion euros.
