Andrew
Rogers offers 10 telling statistics from the new Personnel Today report: UK
Line Managers – Are they good enough?
An
amazing 675 HR professionals contributed to UK line manager survey conducted on
PersonnelToday.com. The responses paint a vivid portrait of the quality and
potential of UK line managers as seen through the eyes of HR:
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53 per cent rate the overall performance of their organisation’s line managers
as "less than good"
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2 per cent would describe their line managers’ people management skills as
"excellent"
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18 per cent spontaneously cite the people management capabilities of
line managers as cause for concern
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73 per cent are concerned about the capabilities of their line managers to take
the organisation forward
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46 per cent believe their organisation does not allocate an adequate budget to
the development of line managers
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7 per cent spontaneously attribute the cause of this to the organisation not
seeing the value or benefit of training
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67 per cent believe the greatest barrier to effective line management is that
technical skills are considered more important than managerial skills
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74 per cent blame ineffective line managers for low morale in their
organisation
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14 per cent of organisations will be conducting no development activity
whatsoever with their line managers in the next 12 months
● 73 per cent rate their line managers’
ability to manage absence as only "fair" or "poor"
UK
Line Managers – Are they good enough? is exclusive research by Personnel Today,
sponsored by Computers In Personnel and conducted in association with Richmond
Events. The report costs £25 and is available from Esco Business Services 01371
810433, or click here to order online.
