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Employees do not have confidence in their leaders, according to new research from Taleo.

The research shows that only 38% of employees are confident that their leaders and senior managers will steer their firm through the recession, while the same number (38%) had leaders in their companies that were promoted internally, with just one third of future leaders coming through leadership programmes.

Alice Snell, vice president, Taleo Research, says: “To have the right people in place at the right time, companies must have a robust talent management strategy -enabling leaders who strengthen an organisation to be identified, developed, and retained.”

And as if to highlight the importance of strong leadership, Tesco announced recently that over the next year, it will increase expenditure on leadership development by 23% to £3m to develop senior managers and directors through its Tesco Academy.

[Malcolm]

I do not think this shows anything new.

[Gota]

It must be rather depressing to not have confidence in the people one works for.

[Human Resources Philippin]

The employee should have confidence in their leaders because it will greatly help the performance of their leader it will encourage their leader to work hardly for their company

[Jonathan]

But then again it depends how the leaders behave and if they act in a way that deserves that loyalty. It has to go both ways I think.

[Bob]

Ultimately the only person I'm loyal to is myself.

[Gota]

I believe there has to be a certain loyalty to an employer or one may as well find a new job surely?

[Malcolm]

I agree. Otherwise there will never be any job satisfaction at all. I think to feel part of a team is vital to workplace harmony.