Band 6+: The chart below shows the results of the survey of business people in three different years about factors that make managers good at their jobs. Respondents rated the factors from 1 to 5, according to the importance.

The bar chart compares the significance of several characteristics that a good manager should have from the year 2010 to 2020.

Generally, while most of factors witnessed an increasing importance in the perspectives of respondents, responsibilty and transparency remained unchanged. Additionally, responsibility was the most regared aspect throughout the period.

Regarding the stable group, responsibility was the most admireable factor of a manager in 2010, at the maximum of 5 out of 5, compared to only 3 of transparency. Over the next decade, despite a slight dip to 4 in 2015, the figure for responsibility rebounded to 5 in 2020, remaining its leading position. In contrast, although transparency experienced a notable growth in the importance to 4 in the 2015 survey, which then decreased to its starting point.

Concering the remaining ones, the second most essential aspect of a leader was good communication, rising from 4 to 5 out of 5 in the surveyed scale in the end. Meanwhile, empathy and vision shared a similar pattern, with a growth in their significance over time. At the beginning, empathy was the most underrated factor, at 1 out of 5, marginally lowever than 2 of vision. However, with a greater acceleration, empathy kept up with the pace of vision around 2015, ending at 4 out of 5 together.