The management style of a superior has an influence on employees' health that is not to be underestimated. This is made clear by Anne Schassan, organisational developer, and professor Peter Berger, who accompanies the Fürstenberg Performance Index: The Fürstenberg Performance Index shows 39 % performance decline due to lack of appreciation and 17 % due to conflicts with superiors.
The hereto matching VW-study of the Bertelsmann-Stiftung with its subject "Führung und Gesundheit" reveals: If a manager of a department with a sickness absence rate of 3 % transfers to a department with a sickness absence rate of 6 %, the sickness absence rate of the new department will also fall to 3 %. This is also applied vice versa which means that a manager with a high sickness absence rate in his working area also pushes up the sickness absence rate in a new department. The executive takes the sick leave along.
For though everybody is responsible for his or her own health, managers act as role models and determine the organisation's spirit. Only the recognition of good achievements encourages therewith the quality of achievements. What is more, fixed breaks should be observed. Are meals only eaten alongside at the workplace, the subjective feeling of being under pressure will be increased and there will be no possibility to establish a communal spirit promotive to the working climate. Thus, commitment and efficiency more and more fade.