Rooting out toxic leaders, soldiers rate bosses

Rooting out toxic leaders
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Oct 9, 2011 9:52:13 EDT
Soldiers will now be asked — and expected — to rate their bosses.

Effective Oct. 1, officers will be required to assert that they have completed a 360-degree evaluation — where the officer is graded by his subordinates, peers, subordinates and superiors — within the past three years.

Requiring officers to complete 360-degree evaluations should encourage them to grow and, at the same time, weed out potential toxic habits among officers, officials said.

A recent survey of more than 22,630 soldiers from the rank of E-5 through O-6 and Army civilians showed that roughly one in five sees his superior as “toxic and unethical,” while 27 percent said they believe their organization allows the frank and free flow of ideas.
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