Why Talented people leave organizations
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
I can't recall any job I've left because of an immediate supervisor, though I have managed to find a few supervisors new jobs. Just provide a headhunter with his/her name and phone number (or email address these days) and let the magic work.:-D My reason for leaving has usually been organizational - the company or division I worked for developed a serious case of having no future. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
When it comes right down to it, people survive just fine making half as much money as I make. (according to salery.com I'm making below average for my position!) Thats not to say I won't leave for more money, so much as I would also leave for less money if the other factors are right. When someone doesn't get along with their supervisor, they go from willing to leave to activly looking. I'll take a better job if I get one, but I'm not looking hard. That said, you need to look at more than their immediate supervisor. My experience is that upper management puts those supervisors in place, so they need to look at themselves when there are bad supervisors below them! More than that though, bad upper management affects far more people. If one supervisor is losing many good people, that is the one supervisor, but if you are loosing them all over, look higher up the ladder. When I don't see, or don't belive the road map, I don't see a future and I want to leave. When changes that are desperately needed are not made I want to leave.
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
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When it comes right down to it, people survive just fine making half as much money as I make. (according to salery.com I'm making below average for my position!) Thats not to say I won't leave for more money, so much as I would also leave for less money if the other factors are right. When someone doesn't get along with their supervisor, they go from willing to leave to activly looking. I'll take a better job if I get one, but I'm not looking hard. That said, you need to look at more than their immediate supervisor. My experience is that upper management puts those supervisors in place, so they need to look at themselves when there are bad supervisors below them! More than that though, bad upper management affects far more people. If one supervisor is losing many good people, that is the one supervisor, but if you are loosing them all over, look higher up the ladder. When I don't see, or don't belive the road map, I don't see a future and I want to leave. When changes that are desperately needed are not made I want to leave.
Henry miller wrote: according to salery.com I'm making below average for my position!) Don't worry about it: assuming a Gaussian salary distribution, half of the people do. Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
That's certainly not the reason I'm leaving my current job tomorrow...it's more a personal decision based on where my life's heading, and a desire for new challenges. :cool: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
studies like this are largely useless. Following their study based advise of where to look is equivalent to flipping a coin or throwing darts. In any specific situation that could be exactly true. However in most large companies the problems are systemic and will only be solved from the top down. In a situation where a supervisor is a problem replacing him may only be treating a symptom. Immediate relief will result then later more symptoms will appear. Many large organizations have problems that stem from conflicting compensation systems/policies. But, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong.
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
In nearly all of my jobs the immediate supervisor was the one thing that kept me there as long as I was. I would say their conclusion is incorrect. It may be true for the majority of cases but not for me. __________________________________________ a two cent stamp short of going postal.
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Largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization says : If you're losing good people, look to their immediate supervisor. now wot you feel from your experience ?
From my experience it is right and wrong. I left the last job because of my immediate supervisor but I'm moving on from this one because of being under worked.