How many hours should we devote to our bosses?

A study by Leadership IQ, and just filed, estimated at 6 weekly hours that should spend a week with the direct superior, since this time power inspiration, commitment, innovation and motivation with respect to those who only spend an hour a week with their bosses.

Details of the work in more than 32,000 executives, managers and employees, indicate that most professionals spend half the time should be with their boss, while, at the same time, excessive hours also cause lower yields both inspiration and commitment and motivation.

When people spend more than six hours a week interacting with their leader, the diminishing returns are shown in terms of construction of inspiration, commitment, and motivation. And, although there may be benefits if spend all those hours, work sentence that the levels of these parameters are maintained or decreased, with the exception of innovation, which crops up whether they spend between 11-15 hours a week as more than 20. 

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Between different means of communication, the face-to-face and email are, by far the most used two, over the phone, video conferencing, sms or social networks. Using one or the other depends on the number of hours interacting in person with superior: those who only shipped one hour a week with him, spend 33% to face-to-face encounters and 42% e-mail.

On the contrary, those who spend 6 hours a week with his boss, spend half of the time (48%) in face-to-face meetings and just 27% interacting via email. The authors of the study conclude that it is not only important to the amount of time that it interacts, but should increase the percentage of time dedicated to these meetings in person.

The full study can be found here.