Those who recognize the feelings of employees properly deserves more

The Manager, who behave like a bull in are soon left behind and content standard. However, recognize the emotions of their employees, typically earn more than the coarse chunks. The scientists from the WHU - Otto Beisheim found School of Management.

The emotion recognition ability of people has a proven impact on their income. This is the result of a highly regarded study that Professor Jochen Menges of the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management has carried out together with researchers from the University of Bonn and Illinois State University.

Study aroused enormous media

"The better employees recognize feelings of others in organizations, the higher the annual salary of these employees. Emotion recognition skills are not only of interpersonal meaning, but also have an economic value, "explains Professor Jochen Menges, Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Management at WHU.

The study has since its release will get the best of all media coverage ever published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior article. "Emotion recognition is an economic success, but is often underestimated in its importance. Thus, our study does away now. Therefore, I am particularly pleased that our research results are such a large media attention, "says Menges. The findings not only provides Menges ago in an article, but also in a video on the website of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Labor market study: The Head Hunter of IT

Fears of CIOs and CTOs to lose their best IT staff to competitors take to. The term "skills shortage" may be debatable, but the fear of losing good employees is, in fact risen year on year according to a survey.

Regardless of the question whether there is a shortage of skilled workers in the IT industry, more and more chefs fear of losing their best employees. This is the conclusion a recent labor market study commissioned by the staffing agency Robert Half Technology, at the 200 CIOs (Chief Information Officer) and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) took part in many countries. 79 % of CIOs and CTOs are in custody, losing in 2015 their most talented employees of competing firms.

Compared to last year this figure has increased dramatically in 2014 feared barely two-thirds (65 %) of IT managers - and thus 14 % less than it is today - the departure of their IT professionals.

Companies falter in employee retention

Which corporate culture prevails in your company? What is the working atmosphere? These issues, many executives out in the cold. Here are both important factors when it comes to long-term loyalty among employees.

Employee retention is for businesses, particularly in view of the looming shortage of skilled workers is of central importance. To speak in the current HR report 61 % of respondents said employee retention factor a very high or high importance. When top management is as high as 78 %. Yet companies still take far too few appropriate measures to keep their employees.

That in employee retention still exists a large discrepancy between expectations and reality, is the HR Report 2014/2015 with numbers. For the study with a focus on "leadership" surveyed the Institute for Employment and Employability (IBE) and the recruiter Hays 665 decision-makers and employees of companies.