{"id":882,"date":"2016-09-08T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.organisator.ch\/?p=882"},"modified":"2016-09-08T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:22:56","slug":"waehlen-wir-unsere-vorgesetzen-bald-selbst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/en\/human-resources\/hrm\/2016-09-08\/waehlen-wir-unsere-vorgesetzen-bald-selbst\/","title":{"rendered":"Will we soon be electing our superiors ourselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A majority of the Swiss would like to choose their superiors themselves. (Graphic: Information Factory)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A majority of the Swiss want co-determination in the question of leadership: What is astonishing is that even an overwhelming majority of the managers surveyed (76 percent) would be willing to be elected or even voted out of office by their employees. This is the result of the study 'Switzerland leads?!' by Information Factory in cooperation with jobs.ch and Persorama on the topic of leadership and the new role of employees.<\/p>\n

Not a generational issue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone who now believes that this result is primarily due to the age of the managers surveyed is mistaken: managers between 30 and 50 years of age lead the group with 78 percent, followed by baby boomers (over 50 years of age) with 73 percent and younger managers from Generation Y with 72 percent. But although participation is part of everyday life in Switzerland, it is still the exception that managers are allowed to be elected by employees themselves.<\/p>\n

Employees must have (almost) the same skills as managers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study also examined the question of whether there are skills that managers in particular possess and employees do not. The interesting result: almost all the skills examined are just as important for employees as they are for managers. These include professional communication, building and maintaining work-related relationships, and the ability to organize oneself well.<\/p>\n

The most frequently mentioned tasks\/skills that, according to study participants, are primarily possessed by executives include: making far-reaching decisions (40 percent) and taking responsibility (24 percent). According to their own assessment, managers are also stronger when it comes to thinking and acting strategically and conceptually, as well as successfully shaping change processes. Only 43 percent see the latter skills in their employees.<\/p>\n

Leadership also works without exercising power<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Our study shows that exercising power as a component of leadership activity is moving further into the background. The question that then arises is how strong leadership is supposed to function with less and less power,\" explains Claudia Conrads, a consultant at Information Factory, Zurich. \"In addition, 58 percent of all study participants indicated that their company is currently undergoing a change process. When you consider that the responsibility for successful change is supposed to lie more or less solely with the executives, it's understandable that more than half of the respondents don't believe their company can master these change processes.\"<\/p>\n

Further study results<\/strong><\/p>\n

A total of 2,414 people took part in the online survey, including 1,353 employees without management responsibility, 788 managers and 273 HR specialists. The survey was conducted from March to June 2016. The study also brought other findings to light:<\/p>\n