Subtitled Emerging from the downturn?, this quarterly survey of employee attitudes explores the fast-changing world of work and emerging challenges for individuals, employers and policy-makers. It's based on a representative sample of more than 2,000 people in employment in the UK.
Employees’ attitudes to senior managers should ring the most alarm bells for employers. Only about a third of employees say they trust or have confidence in their senior managers and just a quarter agree their organisation’s directors consult them about important decisions. Employees’ negative perceptions of consultation is an issue that has got worse over the four quarterly surveys and is likely to be one of the reasons for the lack of trust and confidence among staff in their leaders.
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