It was revealed that half of UK Employees leaving their job are citing bad management as the main cause.
The report by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has revealed that 47 per cent of respondents felt they were badly managed in a previous workplace, leading them to leave their role, while 50 per cent of people believe they could do a better job than their current manager.
Furthermore, 49 per cent of employees claimed that they would be prepared to have their pay cut if it meant working with a better manager.
Ruth Spellman, CMI chief executive, said: "The figures reveal the depth of the crisis of confidence in UK management and leadership and the enormous toll bad management is taking on the UK economy and people’s well-being."
The report also revealed that 63 per cent of managers admitted to having no management training, while 68 per cent revealed they had come to the role by accident.
Andy Clare, partner at Shine Feedback, recently claimed that fewer managers were dedicating their time to performance management.
“Ruth Spellman, CMI chief executive, said: “The figures reveal the depth of the crisis of confidence in UK management and leadership and the enormous toll bad management is taking on the UK economy and people’s well-being.”
Astonishing what you can prove with one small survey, no verification, and a burning desire to raise the profiile of your organisation…
Rude and egotistical bosses dramatically lower employee creativity, ability to solve problems, job satisfaction, and performance. (Need proof? See the studies cited here: http://globoforce.blogspot.com/2009/09/study-proves-rude-egotistical-bosses_28.html)
What’s the solution? Some bad managers must simply be removed. But many have just never received the training and insight needed to understand the power of their own behavior and influence. Training on simple things like how to specifically and authentically praise and appreciate employees is one step. Equipping them with the tools to do so is another.
As my friend Andrew likes to say: Management is a profession where you can get let loose on real live victims without a scrap of training of any kind. Would you appoint airline pilots, send them up with planeloads of passengers, then send them for training only if their appraisal indicated there were problems? Surgeons?
I appreciate what you say Paul about having to take all surveys with a pinch of salt but we can apply that to every press-release-based story anywhere and most of the stuff on this site is exactly that.
We have a choice here to either point out the obvious and risk coming across as sneering or cynical, or to dig deeper and debate the real implications. It’s a truism that people join organisations and leave bosses, but that doesn’t mean it’s true. What do you think?