Posts Tagged ‘CEO Watch List’

Glassdoor Q4 CEO Watch List: Another One Bites the Dust – Rob Glaser

Posted by • January 18th, 2010 • 1 Comment

Since Glassdoor began reviewing CEO approval ratings in 2008, we’ve been monitoring the lowest-rated CEOs on Glassdoor.com through our quarterly Watch List. Since then, six CEOs from the list left their respective buildings – until last week, when Rob Glaser of Real Networks brought the number to seven. Glaser was on the list in the first three quarters of 2009, and although his approval rating had edged up slightly in Q4, last week it was announced he is leaving the company, effective immediately. As of January 1, 2010, Glaser’s approval rating was 21%. He joins a notable group of now departed CEOs:

The CEO ratings report is based on quarterly analysis conducted by Glassdoor’s analytics team to see which leaders (with a minimum of 50 CEO ratings) are gaining points among their employees and which ones are worthy of making the CEO watch list. The Top and Bottom rated CEOs are outlined below.

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Glassdoor Q3 CEO Watch List Report: Highest and Lowest CEO Approval Ratings Reveal Employee Opinions May be Influenced by Proximity to CEO

Posted by • October 21st, 2009 • 160 Comments
CEO Watch List

The Glassdoor quarterly report* on CEO performance is out, and it seems the down economy and internal actions may have impacted the popularity of CEOs across the board. More than 60% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists — ranking 25 CEOs each — recorded a decline in overall approval ratings since the beginning of July while less than 25% moved up. New analysis this quarter reveals that, at many companies, opinions of the CEOs vary widely depending on whether an employee works close to the power center in the corporate headquarters or further removed from the CEO in a satellite office.

In fact, 68% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists have higher approval ratings from employees in headquarters than employees working in non-HQ offices. A perfect example of this phenomenon is Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, who happens to be one of the highest rated CEOs on Glassdoor.  While his score has slid from 91% approval in Q2 to 76% in Q3, most of the decrease has to do with an influx of negative reviews from Netflix operations in Oregon – as of early October, Hastings had a 92% approval rating among headquarter ...

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Glassdoor CEO Watch List: How Does your CEO Rate?

Posted by • July 16th, 2009 • 4 Comments

It’s that time again – time for the Glassdoor Quarterly CEO Watch List. We’ve identified which CEOs are at the top of their game and who needs some help with their moves – ones we’ve place “on watch” for potential replacement. Let’s start with the ones on the bottom…

The Watch List (Lowest Rated CEOs)

Since we began tracking the CEO Watch List last year, six CEOs on the watch list have “moved on” from their positions at the top, shaking up the list quite a bit and providing space for a few new entrants. One position that has not changed, however, is Office Depot’s Steve Odland who holds the least popular CEO spot (with at least 50 reviews of more) for the third quarter in a row. He is followed by LexisNexis’ Andy Prozes and United Airlines’ Glenn Tilton, who are in the second and third positions for the second consecutive quarter at 7% and 9% approval ratings respectively. We also observed a few Watch List CEOs take a minor climb in approval ratings compared to Q109, including Rain Bird’s Anthony LaFetra, Affiliated Computer Services’ Lynn Blodgett, CSAA Inter-Insurance Bureau’s James Pouliot, RadioShack’s Julian Day and Amgen’s Kevin Sharer.

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Glassdoor CEOs – Who’s Up? Who’s Down? Who’s Gone?

Posted by • April 8th, 2009 • 5 Comments

The last time we reported on CEO ratings on Glassdoor.com was at the end of 2008 when we looked at the Naughty and Nice CEOs of 2008.  Now that the first quarter is over, we’ve  updated the Glassdoor.com lists of highest and lowest rated CEOs, which includes the CEO Watch List (a list of lowest rated CEOs)  and highest rated CEOs. Interestingly, a number of the Watch List’s previous members have – uh, well – moved on.  (Most recently AOL’s Randy Falco).

At of the end of March, the CEO with the lowest approval rating is Office Depot‘s CEO Steve Odland, who has a 5% approval rating and 83% disapproval rating. Following is LexisNexis‘ Andy Prozes at 7%, dropping 6 percentage points and who also holds an 83% disapproval rating.  Between Odland and Prozes, they hold the highest disapproval rating among the least popular CEOs. Rounding out the bottom three is United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton with a 9% approval rating and an 83% disapproval rating, according to his employees. As we’ve collected more data, eligibility for the CEO Watch List has expanded and  10 CEOs are newcomers among the 25 lowest rated, these include: Jim Crowe of Level 3 ...

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Which CEOs Have Been Naughty or Nice According to Their Employees?

Posted by • December 18th, 2008 • 32 Comments

Yes, that’s right. It’s that time of year where we’re making our list and checking it twice trying to find out which CEO’s rated on Glassdoor.com have been naughty or nice in the eyes of their employees this year.

Genentech‘s Art Levinson comes in as the #1 rated CEO (with at least 50 employees) with a 92% approval rating while and Office Depot‘s Steve Odland is the  least popular CEO with the highest disapproval rating of 80%.

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eBay Layoffs – Will Donahoe Be Next?

Posted by • October 7th, 2008 • 7 Comments
John Donahoe / CEO of eBay

So the economy is tanking and there’s no shortage of bad news out there, but for today we thought we’d take a break from talking about financial services to talk about a local high-tech favorite – eBay. 

Yesterday, John Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, announced he would be “streamlining” – otherwise known as laying off 10% of their workforce and letting go of several hundred temporary positions (1,600 jobs in total). Layoffs by themselves are not surprising in this economy, but if you’ve been reading any of the eBay reviews from the last month you’d know that that employees themselves will be looking for John himself to be included in this round of cuts.

Company
CEO
Approval Rating

Motorola
Greg Brown
10.6%

Rain Bird
Anthony LaFetra
11.4%

AOL
Randy Falco
13.4%

EDS
Ron Rittenmeyer
13.5%

Computer Sciences
Mike Laphen
19.3%

Wal-Mart
H. Lee Scott Jr.
23.5%

eBay
John Donahoe
25.2%

Nortel Networks
Mike S. Zafirovski
25.5%

UBS
Marcel Rohner
27.0%

Sun Microsystems
Jonathan Schwartz
28.9%

With a dismal 25.2% CEO approval rating (among the 10 worst with 50 or more reviews), employees haven’t been holding back. Whether its managements need for yet another re-org, change upon change that shows a lack of understanding and appreciation for the eBay ecosystem, or concerns about management killing the “cash cow” or “golden goose” (take your pick) – eBay employees have been especially active on Glassdoor lately.

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