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In today鈥檚 workplace, employees from as many as five generations work side by side. Such diversity furnishes organizations with a deep pool of experience from which to draw but can lead to culture clashes among people with disparate backgrounds, worldviews and expectations.听

One conflict involves employee perceptions of abusive supervision. Workplace bullying involves intimidation, passive aggression and other behaviors that have received popular and academic attention 鈥� usually supporting contentions that workers face a national epidemic of abusive managers and that laws ought to be put in place to protect employees.听

鈥淓ntitled employees often see themselves as far more talented, accomplished and thus deserving than the facts support.鈥�

鈥淣ot so fast!鈥� says Paul Harvey who, with his colleagues, has identified 鈥減sychological entitlement鈥� not only as a root cause of perceived abuse but also a serious threat to managerial and organizational performance.听

鈥淓ntitled employees often see themselves as far more talented, accomplished and thus deserving than the facts support,鈥� Harvey says. 鈥淗as this led them to misread the situation and accuse their supervisors of abuse?鈥�

The answer, he has discovered in studies of dozens of companies representing numerous industries, is 鈥測es.鈥澨�

To control for the possibility that managers might behave more abusively toward entitled staff, Harvey and his colleagues did something nobody in the field had ever done: employed actors to 鈥減lay the boss鈥� and conduct performance reviews with real employees who then rated the bosses鈥� abusiveness.听

The findings? 鈥淚t showed even stronger correlation between entitlement and abuse perception,鈥� Harvey says.

Harvey is now focusing on the best ways to manage entitled employees. The good news is that clearly communicated accountability standards are emerging as the top countermeasure to the entitled mindset.听

听鈥淥ur conclusion is that biases thrive in ambiguity,鈥� Harvey says. 鈥淩emove or reduce the ambiguity and you leave less room for bias to thrive.鈥�