Glassdoor | Study slams CEO leadership authenticity

Telling a few fibs in the workplace is commonplace; perhaps you’ll say you have got a task done when in reality it is still sitting in your inbox waiting to be opened, or maybe you will embellish a conversation you had with a potential new client to impress your peers – these white lies are sadly more common than you would think.

But what happens when it is the CEO or boss who is lacking authenticity as a result of their untrusting behaviour?

Research by Gallup has previously found that employees don’t trust their company’s leadership, as only one in three employees in its global database strongly agree that they trust the leadership of their organisation.

This has also been supported in a Glassdoor study, which discovered that just 51% of professionals surveyed believe their CEO and senior leaders are authentic.