A new UK study suggests the vast majority of managers believe they need training on being compassionate and considerate toward their staff.
Specifically, in a study led by Dr Fiona Beddoes-Jones, an occupational psychologist, eighty percent of managers felt a need for training on how to genuinely care for their staff. This revelation was presented by Beddoes-Jones at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology annual conference, in Liverpool.
Researchers studied over 300 managers/leaders and found the majority of respondents were dissatisfied with the level of warmth and care displayed at work and believed that their well-being would be improved if there was more ‘love’.
A breakdown of the findings reveals a surprising dilemma between the sort of environment people wanted to work in and the management style of the manager managing them.
A total of 70 per cent of respondents reported that they would prefer a ‘collaborative & supportive’ working environment, yet only 26 per cent said that they wanted a manager who was ‘nurturing and kind’ or ‘unconditionally supportive’.
“People want clarity from a logical and pragmatic manager, but they also want to feel that a manager and the organization genuinely care about them and that is often what is missing. In the drive for performance management the human touch gets overlooked,” explained Dr Beddoes-Jones, “and as they say, people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
The research was conducted with over 300 manager/leaders recruited via a number of business social media groups (including CIPD, IoD and BPS).
Nearly 90 per cent of respondents worked within the UK and 44 per cent were male. Participants were aged between 51-65 (48 per cent), 36-50 (38 per cent) and 26-35 (7 per cent).
Source: British Psychological Society/EurekAlert
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January 6, 2017 at 12:55AM
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