Are your employees jumping ship and you are wondering why? There is a strong likelihood that their relationship with management has something to do with it, reveals a SOM-L’Actualité survey conducted among Quebec workers. In this context, offering free coffee or other freebies is a shot in the dark.

The survey results are striking:

• Nearly 40 % of Quebec workers surveyed have already left a job because of a bad relationship with their boss;
• 27 % of Quebec workers surveyed have already considered leaving a job because of a bad relationship with their boss.

In this study, Quebec workers also expressed their opinion on the attributes of a good or bad boss.

THE BAD BOSS	THE GOOD BOSS
Is incompetent	Is familiar with his field of activity
Does not assume his responsibilities	Knows where he is going
Acts only for his own interest	Takes care of the well-being of his employees
Does not trust his employees	Delegates and believes in his team
Micro-manages	Gives clear directions and achievable goals
Does not consult his team	Listens to his team
Abuses his power	Treats each of his employees fairly
Criticizes instead of helping to succeed	Professionally stimulates his employees
Only thinks of making profit	Promotes work-family balance
Does not listen to the needs of his employees	Creates a healthy, pleasant and productive work environment
Is incapable of recognition	Recognizes the skills and the achievements of his employees
Puts his stress on others	Stands tall when there is adversity

Learn more

Read the article on L’Actualité (in French only)

Methodology

This online survey was conducted from March 18th to 20th 2019 among 852 French-speaking adults workers from Quebec. The sample was taken from the SOM Gold Panel, which consists exclusively of randomly recruited Internet users on landlines and cell phones; it is therefore a probability sample. The data were weighted to best reflect the characteristics of the population. The maximum margin of error for all respondents is 3.9%, 19 times out of 20.