A third of executives have seen a negative change in their manager since March and the first confinement, according to a survey.

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According to a Cadremploi survey published on Tuesday, six out of ten executives say they are dissatisfied with their relationship with their manager.

An observation that would not be completely foreign to the current health crisis, since one in three executives has observed "a negative change" in their manager since March and the first confinement.

Thus, one in three executives also considers their manager "overwhelmed by the situation".

A situation that does not seem to perceive all the managers who see themselves as "mostly benevolent (74%), empowering (58%) and transparent (50%)".

For their part, executives "rather perceive them as authoritarian (30%), directive (27%) and negative (24%)", according to the survey of this recruitment site dedicated to executives.

How to reverse the trend?

Executives ask their managers to set “clear goals” (57%), to be “transparent” (49%) and to “listen” (44%).

The managers themselves say they “lacked support” from their own hierarchy (57%), their HRD (56%) or their general management (61%).

For nearly half of managers (49%), the first difficulty “in the current context” is to “keep their employees motivated”, while four out of ten managers find it mainly difficult to maintain cohesion within their team (42 %).

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This survey was conducted from September 30 to October 2 via an online questionnaire to which 1,935 executives responded.

  • Confinement

  • Employees

  • Coronavirus

  • Job

  • Office

  • Society

  • Teleworking

  • Business

  • Management