Australian bosses get big thumbs-down
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Australia’s CEOs have received a big thumbs-down from their own management teams for spending too much time on organisational restructuring at the expense of other leadership tasks.
A report from Melbourne Business School has found that Australia’s managers see themselves as more effective than their CEOs, while managers’ perceptions of the competency of their bosses have become more negative over the past three years.
Ominously for Australia’s bosses, the report suggests that their poor reputation could get even worse. Baby boomers think very highly of their CEOs – who tend to be from the same generation. But Existentialists (born between 1955 and 1963) and Generation Xers (born between 1964 and 1979) have a much lower opinion of their leaders.
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That is a shame they got the thumbs down. A way they could improve their relationships with employees would be by having more open communication. That’s what my free service provides: a picture book with profiles for employees that is exclusive to your company. That way employees can learn about other employees as well as bosses, fostering a more internetworked sense of community.
Corporate Engagement: Australian bosses get big thumbs-down
Trevor Cook posts an interesting link from Management Issues regarding a survey of Australian Management. Apparently our CEOs get a big thumbs down from their own executive teams as they spend too much time on restructuring, and not enough on