Contractors and freelancers sell their skills to employers without making long-term commitments to them and by doing so, they escape the burdens of dominant and outdated management styles that are depressing a lot of the UK’s permanent workforce.
This is the view of a recent report from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), that found that 50% of UK employees think that their company’s dominant management style is having a negative effect and could be hampering the economic recovery.
Only 10% of the adults surveyed, which included umbrella company workers, think their boss is accessible and a mere 7% believe that senior staff are empowering.
The CMI has launched an online application to encourage senior personnel to consider their strengths and weaknesses. The site invites managers to answer 12 quick-fire questions and the results will highlight their primary strength. This could be achieving results, providing direction, working with people or managing themselves. Users will also get access to guidance to help them improve their managerial styles.
Employee engagement and goodwill are very important factors in retention rates and managers who do not recognise this are likely to face serious problems. Substandard management must be eradicated and to do this, managers must understand how to develop their weaker areas and utilise their strengths, according to the CMI.
20% of the people surveyed believe that the stereotyped manager is putting people off applying for senior roles whilst celebrity TV managers fared little better.
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