Bosses aren’t there to be liked, but it seems the UK workforce has a particularly negative attitude toward managers.
The three most common management styles are viewed as authoritative, (21 per cent), bureaucratic (16 per cent) and secretive (12.5 per cent), according to a survey of employees from market research company One Poll. Only 10 per cent describe their bosses as accessible and just 7 per cent think senior staff are empowering.
Ruth Spellman, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute, says: ‘The key to improving management is knowing what is wrong, and it’s time for managers to get serious about their development, play to their strengths and develop any weaker areas.
‘Too few people aspire to occupy management roles and the negative perceptions people have of their own managers, combined with the damaging stereotypes peddled by the media, are seriously undermining the profession.’
Of the 5,000 respondents, 20 per cent say they are put off by the traditional stereotype of a ‘suited and booted’ manager, while 12 per cent say celebrity TV managers, such as Lord Sugar and Gordon Ramsay, are unappealing role models.
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