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HR Gives Senior Management Mostly B's and C's for Communication
When asked to grade the effectiveness of senior management’s communications with employees, only 14% of HR professionals answered with an A, while 39% gave senior management a B and 32% gave senior management a C, Novations said in a press release. A few HR professionals handed out a communications grade of D (13%) and F (2%) to their senior managers.
Causes cited for senior management’s difficulty connecting with employees, according to the release, included:
- Senior management relies too much on e-mail (and little face-to-face time with employees) – 35%,
- Senior management assumes a single message is enough – 30%,
- Senior management has no feedback loop in place – 28%, and
- Senior management’s messages often lack clarity – 24%.
Only 3% of respondents accused senior management of communicating too much, too often.
“What stands out is the inherent weakness of e-mail for employee communications. The Internet is used more and more, but there seems to be a point of diminishing returns when e-mail is relied upon so much. Employees like to see and hear their management and may feel depersonalized by too much e-mail messaging, instead of direct contact,” said Rebecca Hefter, Novations Senior Vice President for Training, in the release.
The Novations Group Internet survey of 2,046 senior human resources and training & development executives was conducted by Equation Research.
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