Leading also means taking your employees with you, Trust and Respect to win. Glassdoor has now recognized the most popular managers for the first time. But what is actually important when it comes to leading correctly? How representative are such awards? And what impact does it have on Executives?

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Captain in Adventureland company

FAZ editor and best of HR - Berufebilder.de® author Carsten Knop writes in his book “Failed Titans”:
can Welt of Companys is a land of adventure. Who this world
enter and through imagination, skill and luck to become a manager
can move a lot. There is no trace of the dreary sky
especially not when the Success sets.

But about that sustained to achieve, the employees want and need to be taken along
- under the flag of your company and yours
Bosses alike. Of the Executive must have the emotional power that comes from the
Relationship of his employees to the company and to himself
arises, but also allow, to respond to these and in the right one
Steer direction. For that he needs a lot of strength. And the success
if it happens then there is really no excuse for
bad behavior rather than a solicitation Training, so as
Coach of his team to become even better in the future.

Most popular managers are selected anonymously online

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In fact, the job and career community has apparently identified Glassdoor managers who meet these criteria and awarded the 10 most popular managers in Germany with the Glassdoor Award for employee satisfaction in 2015. Managers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada were also honored as part of the “Highest Rated CEOs 2015” award.

In doing so, employees were able to assess the management style of their CEO and answer the question whether they would advocate their managing director or not. In addition, the employees are asked to assess other factors that are related to their experience from their employment relationship.

Glassdoor emphasizes that the award is based solely on the contributions of employees who participated in an anonymous survey Online- Participated in an employer evaluation survey. The survey is open to all employees all year round. However, this also raises the question of how representative and verifiable the results are, because it would undoubtedly be possible to submit multiple evaluations.

The algorithm behind it

The winners, however, were determined using an algorithm created by Glassdoor, which is not very transparent. Each individual CEO rating was based on the amount and content of reviews, ranging from employees in Germany up to and including 21. April 2015 have been posted. Only companies with at least 20 management and executive ratings were considered.

For the sake of simplicity, the CEO ratings are rounded, just like in the list for the employee satisfaction award. However, the calculations themselves to determine the ranking take into account values ​​beyond the thousandth. If there were several managing directors at a company in 2015, the managing directors were identified based on the Glassdoor company profile as of April 21, 2015.

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It is also a question of how representative such a valuation is at all. Interesting is this ranking: As in politics, individual managers are now detached from the anonymous company and publicly showcased. People's choice instead of team performance.

This may well encourage other managers to rethink and improve their own leadership style - for their own image and that of the company. However, it can also lead to even greater self-expression among the managers - we also know that from politics.

Germany's most popular manager

In the list of the most popular managers in 2015 from the point of view of German employees, there are managers from very different backgrounds Industries represented, including the manufacturing and automotive industries, software development, insurance and sporting goods manufacturers. The top 5 occupy in this order:

  1. Volkmar Denner of Bosch (with an advocacy rate of 92%)
  2. Norbert Reithofer from BMW (91%)
  3. Dieter Zetsche from Daimler (87%)
  4. Pierre Nanterme of Accenture (86%)
  5. Kai Wawrzinek from Goodgame Studios (86%).

What makes good managers?

But what actually makes a good manager? That might be best then clearif we realize where so many fail. And Carsten Knopp also explains this in his book:

The Problem is that many bosses have learned on the way up
not to allow any more feelings, and a feeling for their employees
verlieren. So it's exactly the opposite of what's in today
world would need that of a breathlessly rapid digitization
of all economic processes is marked. But put your strength
these failed titans for other things. What they in the
retention of power invest and sometimes even for a life of luxury,
leads to an erosion of their reputation. They make themselves and thus also theirs
Staff to prison inmates in an existing System, she
have not understood that a leader Orientation must give.
The result is desolate - and then it makes for a dreary sky
in the adventure land of Economy.


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