People leave their jobs because they are not happy.

I saw recently a list of "General reasons why people decide to leave their jobs", and against each reason there was an action.

Each action was something that, it was suggested, the manager could do to change the working environment. Something the manager could do to change the way the employee felt about their job and therefore allow them to stay.

Wht does the manager not understand that these actions were what he should be doing all the time?

It is time that we realised the real influence of the manager.

The manager is responsible for the performance of his team.

The manager is responsible for finding and training new employees.

The manager is the person who creates the environment at work that causes people to leave.

The manager is responsible for the loss of experience when people leave the organisation.

The manager is responsible for creating the unhappiness that causes people to leave.

The traditional view of the function of a manager is that this is the person who tells others what to do.

This view suggests that when people do what they are told then things work well.

The same view suggests that when they don't do what they are told things don