Employees Leave — Deal With (and Benefit From!) It
Yeah, we’ve all seen the phrase “People Leave Managers, Not Companies”, right? It might have been in an article , or a book , but the baseline story is always — so logically — some variation of If you are a good manager, then people like working for you, and will stay around, but if you are a bad manager, then people do not like working for you, and will, therefore, leave It’s all so straightforward and logical, right? Well, it turns out that it is also a load of bullshit. Raghuram et al. (•)studied this exact issue, and discovered that, employees leave both good and bad bosses at almost the same rates . The reasoning, as it turns out is also just as logical — and as with most things in the real world, not as “simple” a story as we would like it to be. Basically, good managers level-up their employees to the point where they are now ripe for the picking by others. Good leadership doesn’t reduce employee turnover precisely beca...