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Hold Managers Accountable

One fundamental belief I’ve cultivated during my tenure at Kronos is that every employee deserves a great manager. Managers are integral to employee engagement and overall job satisfaction. The best, most talented people would rather have a bad job working for a great manager than a great job working for a bad manager. As I mentioned earlier, employees might join organizations because of the company and the compensation package, but they leave organizations because of their manager. Gallup even found, as a Harvard Business Review article noted, that “half of all employees in the United States have quit jobs at some point ...

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