People want to be happy. And happy employees create tenable results. Effective managers support their teams, which raises employee engagement, thereby increasing the bottom line.

When studying the overall culture of a company, and how culture can affect the organization’s bottom line, it’s crucial to understand that many issues arise from the leadership level, and your leadership needs to understand this as well. We take a pretty scientific approach to employee engagement, and understanding it’s role in creating better culture, and improving profit margins. To do so, we break down every organization into five categories, including leadership.

Bad managers are the absolute worse.

They upend company culture, interrupt operational strategy and can create an untenable atmosphere in the workplace.

The worst of it is, a large percentage of companies fail to notice when management is affecting productivity, blaming high turnover on everything else under the sun.