Nearly 7 in 10 Singapore employees ditch jobs due to bad bosses

Leadership gap still evident.

In a release, global talent solutions company Hudson announced the findings of their annual Singapore remuneration report Salary & Employment Insights 2014.

According to the report, over two-thirds (68.3%) of the professionals surveyed have left a job because of a poor manager, 63.3% are currently thinking about leaving their job because of their poor manager and 46% of those that currently have a poor manager are actively looking for a new job because of it.

The report revealed that 40% of workers have changed jobs in the last two years, and 71.4% are looking for a job at the moment, highlighting a possibly significant increase in intentions to change jobs.

The findings demonstrate the importance that Singapore workers place on strong leadership, and that there is a gap in the quality of the managerial leadership in their organisations. This, and the desire to earn higher wages, are the primary drivers for Singaporeans to look for new jobs in the coming year.

The importance of effective and inspiring leadership is clear. The survey showed that 56.8% of employees rated the quality of their current manager as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’, while 43.2% rated their current manager as being ‘average’, ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.