April 2007 | Current Webpolls
Vacation Time
Our first Web Poll for April asked respondents how leadership divvies up vacation time – by seniority, on a first-come basis or through another system. Most respondents (nearly 62 percent) said their organization uses the first-come, first-served system, followed by a method other than the two we listed (23 percent). Only 15 percent said their enterprises use a seniority-based system to allocate time off.
According to employees' needs and requirements. Conflicts are worked out between employees.
– Murphy on April 04, 2007
Communication with All Staff
Our second April poll asked voters to indicate whether or not leadership communicates the status of the organization to employees, through a combination of several commonplace methods. The response shows that most firms' leadership appears to be on the right track: Almost 84 percent of those polled said their leaders communicate with them either routinely or occasionally ("routinely" rated the highest of the two indicators, at almost 58 percent). Still, a little less than a fifth of respondents said their companies never communicate the state of the business to employees.
Related: Read our feature on Family Shelter Service, whose new executive director implemented measures to improve firm-wide communication after she discovered a lack of teamwork and collaboration in the organization.
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