6 reasons why Good Employees surviving Tough Managers ultimately Choose to Quit

Ever heard the saying - People don’t leave jobs; they leave managers? That's because an employee feels more connected to the boss than the company. So far as the boss is encouraging and fair, the crucial talent is not going anywhere.

However, often it so happens that managers blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun and treat the best employees they have as cattle in a herd. Here are the nine worst things that managers do that send good people packing:

1. They overwork people and burn them out. Overworking good employees can turn counterproductive. It can make them feel as if they’re being punished for great performance. New research from Stanford shows that productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and productivity drops off so much after 55 hours that you don’t get anything out of working more. If you must increase how much work your talented employees are doing, you’d better increase their status as well. Talented employees will love to take on a bigger workload, but they won’t stay if their job suffocates them in the process. Raises, promotions, and title-changes are all acceptable ways to increase workload.

2. They don't appreciate good work. A simple pat on the back can go a long way in making an employee feel valued for his good work. For some, it’s a raise but for others, it could be public recognition - managers need to figure out which way to reward them for a job well done.

3. They don’t care about their employees, but the high turnovers. Research says that more than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their ugly relationship with their boss. Managers fail to really care and they will always have high turnover rates. For employees, it’s impossible to keep their spirit going while they are working for someone eight-plus hours a day when the manager is not even personally involved and doesn’t care about anything other than your production yield.

4. They don’t mean what they say - Commitments are forgotten. If the boss doesn’t honor his or her commitments, why should everyone else? It's only expected that a commitment forgotten will have your best talent walk out of the door.

5. They hire and promote the wrong people. When you work your tail off only to get passed over for a promotion that’s given to someone who glad-handed their way to the top, it’s a massive insult. No wonder it makes good people leave.

6. They don’t let people pursue their passion. Studies show that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm. However, many managers fear that productivity will decline if they let people expand their focus and pursue their passions.

If you want your best people to stay, you need to make them want to work for you.