You\u2019ve probably heard it said that people don\u2019t quit jobs, they quit bad bosses.It\u2019s a common leadership maxim\u201d\u201doften issued as a word of warning to those stepping into leadership: a bad leader can ruin even the best of jobs.<\/p>\n
But is the opposite also true? Can a good boss lead to less turnover? And what are the qualities that employees think make for a good leader\u201d\u201dor a bad one?<\/p>\n
In a study among Americans in the workplace, done in partnership with Leadercast, Barna Group found that two in five people work for someone they consider a \u201cbad\u201d\u009d leader. When asked to attribute positive and negative characteristics to their supervisors, these 40% of workers assign at least four of the six negative attributes to their boss. Another two in five workers (40%) say their leader displays one to three of those negative attributes, classifying that leader as \u201caverage.\u201d\u009d In contrast, only one in five workers (19%) assigns only positive attributes to their leaders, qualifying them as \u201cgood\u201d\u009d bosses.<\/p>\n