* What kind of regard does your staff have for you as a boss?
What kind of regard does your staff have for you as a boss? A new poll from staffing firm Robert Half International shows that more than half of respondents are satisfied with their bosses and believe they’re trustworthy.
Conducted in partnership with job site CareerBuilder.com, the survey is based on online responses from more than 3,000 workers. Of those, a full 52% are satisfied with the performance of their bosses and 28% are unhappy with their supervisors. What’s more, 60% of workers say they can trust their managers, while 21% believe their supervisors aren’t trustworthy.
Bosses get the highest praise for addressing day-to-day problems, with 58% of staffers saying their managers make time to hear concerns. Another 44% agree their managers help them develop new skills, though 26% disagree. Workers’ professional advancement ambitions aside, only 24% feel they could do a better job than their bosses if given the opportunity.
And the higher up the ranks you go, the more difficult it is to satisfy your staff. Only 44% of respondents are satisfied with their company leaders’ performance, which is eight percentage points down from their views of their bosses. And only about four out of 10 workers believe their corporate leaders can be trusted.
“The higher up the ranks an executive goes, the more challenging it becomes to communicate with staff,” says Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources at CareerBuilder.com. “Line managers have the benefit of being able to build rapport through daily interactions, whereas corporate executives typically must rely on more formal communication channels, which may not always be as effective.”
