Jobs and the Future of Work

Who are the top-rated CEOs?

Everyone wants to work for a great boss, but which chief executive officers are rated most highly by their company’s employees? Recruitment site Glassdoor has attempted to answer this question with its Highest Rated CEOs in 2015 list, compiled using Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards.

Included below are the rankings for top-rated CEOs of large companies (more than 1,000 employees) according to the opinion of staff based in the United States and Germany.

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Larry Page, from Google’s new parent company Alphabet, and Mark Parker, from Nike, are joint top of the list. Both garner 97% approval from their employees in the US. Just behind in third is Charles Butt, from H-E-B Texas Grocery, with 96%. The US top 10 is largely a mixture of tech and finance companies.

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In Germany, Volker Denner, from Robert Bosch, tops the list of top-rated CEOs. His score of 92 would not have been enough to feature in the US top 10. In second place, we see Norbert Reithofer of BMW, the only other CEO to score in excess of 90 in Germany. Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler, scores 87 to complete the top three.

While it features some financial companies, the German list is more strongly centred around manufacturing than the US.

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Author: Joe Myers is Digital Content Producer at Formative Content.

Image: Pedestrians cross a road September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino 

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