Why do Poles quit their jobs? These are the sins of Polish bosses

Lack of respect for employees and favoring selected people are the most irritating features of bad managers in Poles – says Monday's “Rzeczpospolita”, citing the results of a nationwide survey of the situation in the workplace.

The study, which was conducted on a sample of 1,068 employees, contractors and people employed on B2B terms, confirms the saying popular among HR experts that “an employee comes to the company and leaves the boss.” Every third respondent admitted that he changed his job because of a bad supervisor, sometimes more than once, and another 28 percent seriously considered it. In total, more than six out of ten employees' actions or approach of their bosses prompted them to change their employer – we read in “Rz”.

According to “Rz”, the most frustrating negative feature of managers was indicated by almost half of the respondents, lack of respect towards subordinates. This may include, for example, ignoring a subordinate's requests and ideas, or forgetting previous arrangements. Farm behavior patterns are associated with the second most irritating feature of managers – favoritism of selected employees – 37%. indications.

Slightly fewer people criticized their bosses lack of communication skillsand 35 percent complained about them micromanagement, i.e. excessive control of every detail of work. 35 percent respondents consider the most irritating feature of their superiors not keeping promiseswhich turned out to be more burdensome than micromanagement .33%. negatively assessed the boss's attribution of all the credits to himself.

The survey asked employees about the leadership values ​​they valued most. Most people chose justice, including equal treatment of the team and ethics. Half of the respondents chose them first, and 75 percent – in the top two values.

47 percent employees believe that a good boss should flexibly combine the roles of leader, manager, mentor and partner depending on the situation. However, for 76 percent respondents, the gender of the boss does not matter at all – only his competences matter. The majority, 56 percent. respondents also declare that the age of the superior is an irrelevant factor – we read in “Rz”.

Polish employees rate their bosses only as a three with a plus, i.e. 3.38 on a five-point scale, among which every fourth gave their superior a one or two, according to a study commissioned by 4Results and carried out by the Business Growth Review research platform. (PAP)

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