3.2.2 How to Represent Inheritance in an Object Diagram

Let's say we have an Employee class and a Boss class and that the Boss class inherits from the Employee.

We want to instantiate a Boss object so even though a Boss is an Employee we will use the Boss type to instantiate the object.

The mistake to avoid, however, is representing this in an object diagram as:

Instead, we need to represent the object instantiation not as the inherited class, but as the descendant class.