He's always right. At least he thinks he is. His work is always perfect, while everyone else's is flawed. His ideas are always great, and those from others are greatly inferior. He, or she, is the jerk at work.
Most places have a jerk or two.
They make life less than pleasant at times. It is hard enough to deal with them when they are your fellow employees, but the difficulty multiplies when he or she is a supervisor. The Reporter-News asked a psychotherapist, a management professor and a human resources director what to do. You have to try to reorient their thinking. It is very difficult to get your point across without challenging the person.