4 Research shows leaders’ enable organisations to innovate, respond to ‘effective environmental changes, creatively address challenges, and sustain high performance. In 2012, 40.22 per cent of 35-44 year and 37.74 per cent of 25-34 year age groups agreed organisation’s executive team provided effective leadership’ compared to ‘their 35.67 per cent in the 45-54 year age group. The results are relatively similar across all the age ranges for the Tier 2 statements. Observations of the same question by occupational category shows different ‘leadership’ results. For example, the response rates to the Tier 1 statement above, the most positive responses within those occupational groups (50 per cent) was from participants in the Cadet/Trainee/Graduate/Apprentice and Senior Executive Service categories and (45.95 per cent) of Economics /Accounting/ Finance compared with the lowest (9.09 per cent) in Custodial. For comparison purposes these groups only represent a small number of overall participants (0.65 per cent) or 106 respondents of the 1629 who responded to this question. Nevertheless it demonstrates that correlations between occupational groups and responses can be made by segmenting different employee groups. 2011 2012 d5 - My Organisation's executive team provide effective 53.70 Leadership leadership 50.81 d1.3 - Managers communicate the goals and priorities of my Organisation 59.26 61.53 d1.4 - My direct manager supports and encourages me to achieve high standards 67.01 69.50 *The overall’ is the total of the agree to strongly disagree’ responses as a percentage of total ‘average ‘strongly responses excluding know’ responses ‘don’t
4 Research shows ‘effective leaders’ enable organisations to innovate, respond to environmental changes, creatively address challenges, and sustain high performance. In 2012, 40.22 per cent of 35-44 year and 37.74 per cent of 25-34 year age groups agreed ‘their organisation’s executive team provided effective leadership’ compared to 35.67 per cent in the 45-54 year age group. The results are relatively similar across all the age ranges for the Tier 2 statements. Observations of the same ‘leadership’ question by occupational category shows different results. For example, the response rates to the Tier 1 statement above, the most positive responses within those occupational groups (50 per cent) was from participants in the Cadet/Trainee/Graduate/Apprentice and Senior Executive Service categories and (45.95 per cent) of Economics /Accounting/ Finance compared with the lowest (9.09 per cent) in Custodial. For comparison purposes these groups only represent a small number of overall participants (0.65 per cent) or 106 respondents of the 1629 who responded to this question. Nevertheless it demonstrates that correlations between occupational groups and responses can be made by segmenting different employee groups. 2011 2012 Leadership d5 - My Organisation's executive team provide effective leadership 50.81 53.70 d1.3 - Managers communicate the goals and priorities of my Organisation 59.26 61.53 d1.4 - My direct manager supports and encourages me to achieve high standards 67.01 69.50 *The ‘average overall’ is the total of the ‘strongly agree to strongly disagree’ responses as a percentage of total responses excluding ‘don’t know’ responses