The conclusions are supported toward the end: that 86% of employees love or like their job, and that they have serious problems with management:
Only 38% of employees believe that “senior management
[is] sincerely interested in employee wellbeing.” Fewer
than 4 in 10 agree that “senior management communicates
openly and honestly.” A scant 40% of employees believe
that “senior management communicates [the] reasons for
business decisions,” while just 44% believe that “senior
management tries to be visible and accessible.” Perhaps
most damning of all, less than half of those polled
believe that “senior management’s decisions [are]
consistent with our values.”
Re:Management's Dirty Little Secret
by ggchappell on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @06:56PM
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Missed that. Thanks.
This amusing reflection strikes me: Said managers may likely have the exact same feelings, e.g. "barely one-fifth (21%) of managers are truly engaged in their work, in the sense that they would go the extra mile for their employees. Nearly four out of ten (38%) are mostly or entirely disengaged, while the rest are in the tepid middle."
> Here’s what the researchers discovered: barely one-fifth (21%) of employees are truly engaged in their work, in the sense that they would “go the extra mile” for their employer. Nearly four out of ten (38%) are mostly or entirely disengaged, while the rest are in the tepid middle.
Now the unwarranted conclusions:
> There’s no way to sugarcoat it—this data represents a stinging indictment of the legacy management practices found in most companies.
It does? Why? Maybe without the managers, employees would be even less engaged.