February 2005

Workers blame poor management for bad productivity

FEB. 2, 2005 — If your employees don’t seem as productive as you think they should be, you might want to look at your management skills.

According to the 2005 Workplace Productivity Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), workers believe the top factor that negatively impacts employee productivity is poor management.

The SHRM survey polled a sample of 478 human resource (HR) professionals and 613 employees to collect information about workplace productivity. The survey examined several components of the workplace that impact productivity to determine their effect on worker productivity.

The survey asked employees, “Which of the following factors negatively impact your productivity at work? (Check all that apply.)” Responses were as follows:

• Poor management (58 percent);

• No longer being motivated by the work (38 percent);

• Organizational changes (26 percent);

• A lack of defined goals in the job (24 percent);

• Readiness to leave organization (16 percent);

• A lack of accountability in the job (13 percent);

• Pressure by management to show “face time” (12 percent); a

• Other (16 percent).

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