News: Performance Management
Management training needed for "strong but fair" leadership
06 November 2008
More management and leadership skills training are needed to help tackle bullying in the workplace, the Chartered Management Institute has found.
A report released by the organisation today reveals that 70 per cent of managers do not have the leadership skills required to tackle the issue effectively.
If training is not implemented soon enough, a large proportion of firms risk "long-term damage to business performance", it claims.
Jo Causon, director of marketing and corporate affairs at the institute, confirmed that poor management skills are at the heart of widespread bullying which costs the UK economy billions in lost productivity every year.
She added that "now, more than ever", the ability of the UK's managers and leaders to set a good example is paramount: "Without strong but fair leadership, how can working environments be productive and how can employers hope to motivate staff in what are already trying times?"
The institute's report, entitled Bullying at work: the experience of managers, was compiled from interviews with 867 managers and leaders across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
A report on the same theme released by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development recently revealed that positive outcomes to conflict in the workplace are far more common in enterprises where training is regularly implemented.
