What is the best way to deal with my boss who refuses to communicate and is an ineffective leader and manager, and often responds to issues personally rather than professionally?

If your manger is not up to what is expected from him, then you have to be careful while doing work and taking decisions. You have to apply your knowledge, experience and tact to deal with each situation so that you will not land in trouble for the mistake of others. Moreover, you have to read his mind when he responds personally rather than professinally and act and take decision accordingly to avoid any problem. If it is utterly difficult to work with him you can convey the message to him or superiors. If one is unfit to be a manager, he will not last long as an able one will replace him. 

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Deal with it professionally

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A calm manner and make him see the importance of the subject and make it the subject of a huge

Nothing works better between a boss and a subordinate than open communication. If you feel that getting him/her to communicate is not working then you need to escalate the matter and talk to his/her boss. But make sure you are polite and dont accuse your boss, but do highlight all your concerns and talk about how you think you can be more efficient with better coordination and positive influence from the boss. Also, parallely, make sure you send a list of evidence of all the work done by you over emails. That stays as a written proof just in case the manager gets personal and accuses you of any professional shortcomings. Also I dont think one should hesitate to let the boss know that the personal comments are not acceptable and ask him/her to keep it professional.

be polite ,be professional,be honest for you are work 

This question answered many times before questions came from different professionals, Mr,Shahul hammed and Mr.heavenly john pointed it nicely. 

Politely place it on record through internal soft mail under copy to super boss. The boss must fall in line professionally. If super boss is reliable, discuss it out once for all to clear the cloud.

This situation isn't new, it has always surfaced, is surfacing & will continue to surface in organisation because of mjorly personality differences & comflict on interests by mamagement & their employees. Some managers are justly naturally rude & ruff in character, some it is just their personality, others the managerial position foces them to behave that way while others just intentionally behave that way to prove how "big" they are or out of jealousy & comflict of interest. You can talk to your co-workers that fully trust with your confidentially, explain to them this problem. If they are convinced with your urgument, you can as a team go & talk to your supervisors or other managers about this case. If they also buy the idea, they can surmon him & investigate this issue from the root cause, it will be hard for tha manager to go against you if you have worked up this as a team.

Thanx for the invitation

you cannet solution but patience and seek new work about a better environment