Abstract
Scholars, the business press, practitioners, and business school curricula have long emphasized the importance of ‘managing your boss’ (MYB) as an important driver of employee effectiveness in organizations. Empirical research on this topic, however, has been stymied by the lack of a validated measure of ‘managing your boss’ behaviors. This paper first reviews the literature on the topic to develop a constitutive definition of MYB. Then, using this definition, we systematically develop a MYB measure necessary for testing theory about its origins and outcomes. Six studies then provide evidence evaluating its psychometric properties and construct validity. In the first two studies, we refine and develop a 10-item measure of MYB and provide evidence about its reliability and factor structure. The remaining four studies provide evidence about the construct’s convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity. Doing so, we establish the distinctiveness of MYB from related constructs and demonstrate its relationships with the previously theorized nomological network.
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