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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the captain-obvious dept.

When managers create a culture where employees know the boss puts employees' needs over his or her own, measureable [sic] improvements in customer satisfaction, higher job performance by employees, and lower turnover are the result, according to research by Robert Liden, Sandy Wayne, Chenwei Liao, and Jeremy Meuser, that has just been published in the Academy of Management Journal.

Employees feel the most valued, and in return give back to the company and its customers when their bosses create a culture of trust, caring, cooperation, fairness and empathy. According to Sandy Wayne one of the authors of the research, "The best business leadership style is far from, 'Do this. Don't do that.' A servant leader looks and sounds a lot more like, 'Is there anything I can do to help you?' Or, 'Let me help you....' Or, 'What do you need to...?' This approach helps employees reach their full potential."

The study was conducted at the Jason's Deli national restaurant chain, and the sample included:
961 employees
71 Jason's Deli restaurants
10 metropolitan areas.
The findings were based on data from surveys completed by managers, employees, and customers, and data from corporate records.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/ub-wb042915.php

[Study]: http://amj.aom.org/content/57/5/1434

[Also Covered By]: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-bosses-employees.html

[Source]: http://business.uic.edu/docs/default-source/chrm-documents/2015-website-servant-leadership-and-serving-culture-linden-wayne-liao-meuser.pdf?sfvrsn=2 [PDF]

 
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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 07 2015, @03:34AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 07 2015, @03:34AM (#179760) Journal

    "Boss" is much too authoritarian.

    Almost no manager has "boss" as part of their job title. So it's already a solved problem.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by urza9814 on Thursday May 07 2015, @05:10PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday May 07 2015, @05:10PM (#179986) Journal

    Almost no manager has "boss" as part of their job title. So it's already a solved problem.

    Yeah, they're merely "managers"; but all the rest of us have been similarly demoted and even fully dehumanized to be mere "resources".

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 07 2015, @08:23PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 07 2015, @08:23PM (#180057) Journal

      Yeah, they're merely "managers"; but all the rest of us have been similarly demoted and even fully dehumanized to be mere "resources".

      Is that part of your job title? The point of this thread, I gather, was to come up with some sort of semantic sugar coating for the employer-employee thing.

      Further, what is the problem with being a resource? That is an accurate label of your value to whoever is employing you. They sure aren't hiring you because you're a waste of oxygen.