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Like a Boss: The High Cost of Bad Management

March 4, 2016

By Michelle Spencer  bio

Bosses have the greatest effect on an employee’s satisfaction with their job, and employee turnover incurs considerable hard and soft costs. This has great significance for law firms, where many attorneys lead legal teams, and there is a high percentage of bosses.

Management in law offices need to be especially mindful of these webs of unofficial employee/boss relationships.

Also, many young attorneys have never been in managerial roles, and leadership is not taught in law school. Therefore, it is incumbent upon firm leadership to aid and mentor attorneys in how to be great bosses.

To help you in this important endeavor, I’m creating a series of infographics to detail some of the significant facts, figures, traits, and behaviors that represent good leadership.

Here’s my first one:



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These facts and figures should come in handy for your next personnel discussion. (The next one’s coming soon.)


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Filed Under: Hiring, Topics, Employee benefits, Managing staff, Managing the office, Working with lawyers, articles Tagged With: Managing the office, Managing staff, Working with lawyers, Employee benefits, Blog, Insight, Hiring

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