How assessment can improve management skills
Posted by Mary Clarke in Strategy, Leadership, CPD on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 10:00
According to research from BT Business in 2009, management failures were behind more than two-fifths of staff resignations. Mary Clarke discusses the future of management training.
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) recently questioned 5,000 adults about how they view their managers. Only 10% described their bosses as accessible, while just 7% said their leaders are empowering.
Worryingly, half the people questioned believed they could do a better job than their bosses and an equal number were willing to take a pay cut to work with a better manager. Management style was also seen as a problem in many companies. A fifth of employees claimed their managers are authoritarian and half said that there was a dominant style of management in their organisation. In addition, many people don’t trust their managers with a staggering eight out of ten workers claiming they wouldn’t turn to their boss if they had a problem at work.
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