研究生英语视听-林美纹Llistening,Reading,Watching---unit 2 Career and Success（修订版）.doc

. Unit 2 Career and Success Listening There are many reasons why people leave their jobs.Maybe a higher salary offered in the new job, possibly its just a career advancement, or it could be because they cant stand their management, and they believe their supervisors are doing a bad job about it.My next guest says that bad management is the main reason why people leave their jobs.Hes Stephen Taylor, hes a lecturer in management at Manchester Metropolitan University.Its good morning to you! Interviewer: This is an extraordinary finding that basically you are saying poor management and supervision, finally people said, Thats enough, Im off. Interviewee: Thats right; I think thats very right.Weve interviewed about 200 people in depth about their last job-move.Weve asked them to tell us in detail why they left their last jobs.And thats the main finding of our research, and its sort of a hidden reason.I think a lot of organizations dont understand, dont realize how important this is.But certainly most people, the majority of people, that was the primary reason they left. Interviewer: Now when we talk about s-poor supervision or bad management, were obviously talking about more than, say, sexual harassment, abuse, bullying and that sort of thing. You are really talking about they are not doing their job, absolutely, not supervising. Interviewee: Absolutely, There are examples of bullying, and just unpleasant treatment, abuse of power and so on, but theyre a minority.Its much more common to find examples of ineffective management of sweeping problems under the carpet, not listening to grievances, not listening to people, just not managing in effect actually. Interviewer: And that, of course, those managers would say that they are suffering the same problem from their own managers. Interviewee: Thats very tricky, we have also interviewed supervisors themselves and we get the same thing from them. They will complain about the area manager and so on and it goes up the hie