Romanian employees mostly appreciate their managers’ ability to give feedback and to help them improve their knowledge (63.5% of respondents answered this way when asked to evaluate their managers’ ability to give guidance), 23.5% mostly appreciate their ability to demonstrate a situation or a job task, while 13% appreciate their managers’ ability to clarify job-related aspects (13%).
Result-oriented management places third among employees’ preferred qualities when it comes to making the portrait of an ideal leader.
Surprisingly, managers’ communication skills are among the least appealing aspects for the employees who were asked to make the portrait of an ideal leader. However, when it comes to communication skills, employees mostly appreciate managers who make sure everybody understood what they are supposed to do when having to perform certain job tasks (30%) and those organizing communications (25%).
Training and consulting company Ascendis started its activity in 1997 and it ended 2015 with a turnover of EUR5.4 million. The group has a team of 67 consultants and facilitators and a portfolio of over 160 constant clients.
The survey was conducted on a sample of 500 employees attending professional training courses.