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The single largest reason people leave employers and jobs is to escape their boss.

This translates to: I am not respected, hence appreciated or valued, by my boss.

When you are in such a situation, you are stressed and consequently work neither in your most efficient nor your most effective way. This leads to unhappiness, insecurity and conflict, both at work and home.

For some, they blame themselves for their lack of success , this attribution is rarely correct or identifying the real issue, more often it is due to the mis-match between their work style and that expected by their supervisor and/or the organisation’s management.

How do you assess this to identify that this mismatch is the main issue?

In the workplace, there are many different ways of interacting and every person has differing needs and requirements to feel respected.

The checklist that you can download here can assist identifying where the problem, if one exists, may lay and how serious it is for you.

This list does not include inappropriate or illegal behaviour by your supervisor and/or the organisation’s management as that is an entirely separate issue.

  1. Review the Contents of COLUMN 1 to add any issues you think are relevant to your situation.
  2. Score each aspect on two counts on the way your boss interacts with you.
  3. COLUMN 2 and COLUMN 3: IMPORTANCE: 0: not important to you at all, 10: extremely important to you. 

COLUMN 4: CURRENT PERFORMANCE : 0: very poor/low performance, 100: top performance.

Issues which are allocated an importance score greater than 6 are key to identifying whether you are respected and valued by your boss.

To evaluate,

  1. Column 4 ; Calculate the TOTAL for the performance scores for aspects that have an importance of 6 or more.
  2. Column 4; Calculate the average score by dividing the TOTAL score by the number of entries.
    1. For the “Important” issues, any individual score below 75% is a warning sign that it is not ideal and these items need to be assessed as to what tactics can be applied to improve the score, or is it terminal?
    2. For full list of the “Important issues”( Column 4), an average score of :
  • Above 75% , indicates a suitable working environment
  • 50%-74%, some issues need to be assessed to ascertain whether they can be fixed or do you need to move.
  • Below 50%, too many problems, very likely not good for you to stay.
  1. Trust you own judgement.

 

The information provided in this article is of a general nature only and not intended to be advice.