Did You Know?
35% of the workforce says their boss rarely listens to their work related concerns.
39% of American workers trust their senior leaders
40% of the average manager’s workday is spent stuck in conflict
44% of workers say they can’t confide in anyone else at work about sensitive or confidential work place issues.
53% of the employees feel their boss doesn’t respect them as a professional.
60-80% of difficulties in organizations stem froms trained relationships between employees, not lack of skill or motivational deficits.
60% of employees say they don’t get enough honest feedback
80% of disputes come from poor relationships between employees
A survey found that “53 percent of workers do not think their boss is honest, a similar number do not think their boss is fair or patient and two thirds do not think their boss is loyal.”
Companies with high trust levels outperform companies with low trust levels by 186 percent. Only 39 percent of American workers trust their senior leaders. Only 50 percent of employees believe that management is at all concerned with the well being of employees.
Employees spend on average 2.1 hours every week–approximately one day a month–dealing with inter personal conflict.
In today’s work environments 30-40% of managers’ time is spent mired in conflict up and down the food chain with aggrieved board members, supervisors, clients, peers and subordinates.
Many employees lack confidence in discussing sensitive or unethical issues with their managers. Forty six percent of workers say they don’t think they can freely and openly discuss unethical work place issues with their boss, and 44 percent say they can’t confide about sensitive or confidential work place issues.
One out off our workers feels their boss is somewhat or very dishonest about their job security, and 53 percent feel their boss doesn’t respect them as a professional equal.
Sixty percent of employee says they don’t get enough feedback. Lack of honest feedback is the number one reason for performance problems
Thirty five percent of the surveyed workers said their boss never, or only sometimes, listens to their work related concerns.