Zero-tolerance to public humiliation is lesson 1 in human resource management. If you have given us all the facts, I would advise you to feel free to call your boss out on this matter, hapo amekosa adabu!

@ Dash, well said. The approach by blackcobra can only be counter productive

"This is someone who enjoys belittling me in front of everyone"

SHE created the department. You suggested its creation BUT she created it. She holds ultimate responsibility for it to the organization, to the other employees and to herself. You just head it.

SHE is, therefore, going to judge your performance on HER terms using HER parameters and when you do not meet these terms or parameters, she is going to reprimand you on HER terms.

Should you ultimately fail, you will find yourself back in your old department as the best case scenario or out of a job in the worst case scenario.

To say that she enjoys belittling you in public is therefore a sign of poor judgement on your part, in my opinion. SHE wants results and if "belittling you is public" is what gets results from you, she will belittle you in public.

So, my dear, stop whining and get down to business making that department out-perform all the other departments and then you will come back and tell us that you have been asked to form another department.

For the record, I have three lady superiors and when I mess up, take it from me, belittling in public is putting it very mildly what happens to me.

See the saturday Nation. Theyve done a piece on women on other women in the office.

On the contrary, kind sir, I have worked in four organizations and in all of them I have, and continue to, report to a woman boss.

One thing stands out. She is the boss. For whatever reason, be it her education, her experience, or who she slept with to get where she is, SHE is the boss.

Most of my fellow employees suffer from what I call Male chauvinism where men believe they cannot be commanded by a mere woman and the ladies, well, you have the Saturday Nation article.

What I have come to discover is that if you are a performer on the section that she is the boss and results are required and she cannot perform everything by herself, then the need for sadism and ass licking that you so eloquently allude to does not arise.

Take it from me. I have been there.