If your company has a serious employee turnover problem, with new recruits dropping out as quickly as you can bring them in, you may want to look to the upper echelons of the company. Good leadership is crucial for the success and viability of any company, which Morgan Hoogvelt sums up neatly on ere.net with a quote from one of her team leaders, "People don't quit their jobs. They quit their managers."
If you want to evaluate whether the higher-ups in your company might be contributing to the high turnover rate of those below them on the totem pole, consider these questions:
- Do your executives know the people they manage on a personal level, or do they consider themselves above their employees? Employees like to know that the company's management considers them equals.
- Are they successful delegators? Executives hoarding too much detailed work or, on the other hand, passing all the work on to subordinates can cause problems in a company's workflow.
- Do they cling to company traditions or adopt new, flexible strategies? Inflexible, antiquated policies are a significant cause of employee dissatisfaction. If your executives refuse to move on to more modern practices, like allowing employees to work from home, it keeps the entire structure of the organization from moving forward.
If you believe your executive team is holding your company back, you can engage an executive search firm like YES Partners on a confidential basis, so that those currently in these roles won't know about the search.
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