70% leave job because of line manager's performance

70% of people leave their job because of the line manager, not the job itself – that was the message of Professional Performance Consultant Teresa Mitrovic, at yesterday’s HR Game Changer Conference.

Also speaking at the event held by myHRcareers, Deepak Jas, BBC’s Head of HR, stated that line managers hold the overall responsibility for engagement and performance, adding that the workplace has changed so much in the last 5-10 years, that what is being asked of line managers is ‘significantly different’ from a decade ago.

“It’s not just HR that’s making demands of line managers,” he explained. “Certainly at the BBC we’re asking managers to take on additional responsibilities that Finance are no longer undertaking, Procurement are asking them to do certain things, and we in HR are also asking certain things of our line manager population.