People leave managers, not companies. What qualities are todays leaders lacking the most?

Employees agree that modern leaders suffer from an acute lack of fairness, sincerity, communicativeness and willingness. These are traits and behaviours that employees rarely see in their bosses and mention most often. Poor level of these qualities in management is key driver for employee dissatisfaction and disappointment. Insufficient behaviour of managers impulse people to start looking for another job.

How do employees view present-day leaders? What kind of relationship do they have with their direct superiors? The Paylab.com salary portal completed an international employee survey on the characteristics that contemporary managers lack the most. The survey is part of PAYLAB COMPENSATION MONITOR which observes on regular basis trends related to remuneration. We asked employees in 11 countries across Europe to evaluate their direct supervisor. The portal also examined how their relationship with their boss influenced their salaries.

The survey was conducted from July to September 2017 over a sample of 52,120 respondents working in all current industries, positions and levels of management. Read more about the survey in Paylab Newsroom. or download INFOGRAPHIC.