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 Communications with a 16% approval rating, Jack Potter of the USPS with a 22% approval rating and Mike Laphen of Computer Sciences who has a 22% approval rating.

Glassdoor Report: CEO Watch List*
Lowest Rated CEOs
Company	Company Rating	CEO	CEO Approval  Rating (%) as of 3/2009	CEO Approval Rating (%) as of 12/2008	Quarterly change in approval rating (%)
Office Depot	2.3	Steve Odland	5	4	1
LexisNexis	2.4	Andy Prozes	7	13	-6
United Airlines	1.8	Glenn F. Tilton	9	12	-3
Rain Bird	2.1	Anthony LaFetra	9	9	0
Motorola	2.7	Greg Brown	10	10	0
Affiliated Computer Services	2.3	Lynn R. Blodgett	11	9	3
CSAA Inter-Insurance Bureau	2.3	James R. Pouliot	12	13	-1
RadioShack	2.1	Julian C. Day	13	11	2
Amgen	3.1	Kevin W. Sharer	13	15	-1
Level 3 Communications	2.3	Jim Crowe	16	24	-8
Nortel Networks	2.8	Mike S. Zafirovski	17	20	-2
Sears Holdings	2.8	W. Bruce Johnson	20	18	2
eBay	2.8	John J. Donahoe	20	20	0
Pfizer	2.9	Jeff Kindler	21	23	-2
US Postal Service	2.7	Jack Potter	22	26	-4
Computer Sciences	2.8	Mike Laphen	22	22	0
Gannett	2.8	Craig A. Dubow	24	19	4
UnitedHealth Group	2.7	Steve Hemsley	25	25	0
Sun Microsystems	3.1	Jonathan I. Schwartz	25	25	-1
Chrysler	2.6	Bob Nardelli	25	16	9
Real	2.7	Rob Glaser	25	26	-1
Mercer	3.3	M. Michele Burns	26	25	1
Hewitt Associates	2.6	Russ Fradin	26	29	-4
Williams-Sonoma	3.1	W. Howard Lester	27	31	-4
BearingPoint	3	Ed Harbach	27	26	1
* CEOs listed have at least 50 reviews or more

Since we began tracking the CEO Watch List in August 2008, six members have ‘left the building’ at their respective employers, including AOL‘s Falco, Wal-Mart’s H. Lee Scott Jr., Yahoo‘s Jerry Yang and Merrill Lynch‘s Greg Fleming.  Employees can certainly give us insight into the happenings within companies, and maybe an indicator of CEO tenure – or lack thereof.

Glassdoor Report: Lowest Rated Former CEOs (These CEOs were previously on Glassdoor’s Watch List)
Company	Former CEO	Job End Date	Approval Rating (%)
AOL	Randy Falco	3/16/2009	13
Merrill Lynch	Greg Fleming	10/27/2008	31
Walgreen	Jeffrey A. Rein	11/4/2008	37
Wal-Mart	H. Lee Scott Jr.	2/25/2009	30
Washington Mutual	Kerry K. Killinger	9/16/2008	10
Yahoo!	Jerry Yang	1/14/2009	34

Among the highest rated CEOs, according to employees, we note Genentech‘s  Art Levinson remains among the top three highest rated CEOs on Glassdoor.com compared to what was reported in December (Last December Art Levinson was the #1 highest rated CEO followed by Apple‘s Steve Jobs (90%) and Goldman Sachs‘ Lloyd C. Blankfein (88%)). The biggest climb in ratings is with SAP CEO Henning Kagermann who climbed up to a 72% approval rating, 4 percentage points higher than what was reported in late December.  The biggest drop in CEO approval rating among the highest rated CEOs at this time is NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang who dropped 8 percentage points in the past three months and now sits at a 73% approval rating. Also interesting to note that American Express CEO Ken Chenault dropped off the list of highest rated CEOs altogether – he now comes in as the 36^th most highly rated CEO.

Glassdoor Report: Highest Rated CEOs*
Company	Company Rating	CEO	CEO Approval  Rating (%) as of 3/2009	CEO Approval Rating (%) as of 12/2008	Quarterly change in approval rating (%)
General Mills	4.4	Ken Powell	96	96	0
Netflix	4.1	Reed Hastings	95	95	0
Genentech	4.0	Art Levinson	94	93	1
Northwestern Mutual	4.1	Edward J. Zore	93	94	-1
FactSet	4.1	Philip A. Hadley	91	89	2
Apple	3.8	Steve Jobs	91	91	0
Procter & Gamble	4.1	A.G. Lafley	90	89	1
Google	4.0	Eric E. Schmidt	88	88	0
Goldman Sachs	3.7	Lloyd C. Blankfein	87	87	0
McKinsey & Company	4.1	Ian Davis	87	86	0
Disney	3.5	Bob Iger	80	80	0
Caterpillar	3.7	Jim Owens	78	80	-2
Adobe	4.2	Shantanu Narayen	78	78	-1
NetApp	3.8	Dan Warmenhoven	77	78	-1
Cisco Systems	3.6	John T. Chambers	77	77	-1
Ernst & Young Global	3.6	Jim Turley	77	78	-2
Schlumberger	3.6	Andrew Gould	76	76	1
Citrix Systems	3.6	Mark B. Templeton	76	78	-3
Marriott	3.6	Bill Marriott Jr.	75	81	-6
Intuit	3.9	Brad D. Smith	75	76	0
National Instruments	3.7	James J. Truchard	75	75	0
NVIDIA	3.2	Jen-Hsun Huang	73	81	-8
salesforce.com	3.6	Marc Benioff	72	72	0
SAP	3.6	Henning Kagermann	72	68	4
JPMorgan Chase	3.2	Jamie Dimon	71	73	-1
* CEOs listed have at least 50 reviews or more

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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%.

NICE: Coming in at second place after Art Levinson is Apple’s Steve Jobs with a 90% approval rating. And despite a volatile year, four out of five Goldman Sachs’ employees approve of the job Lloyd Blankfein is doing.

Here are just a few of the reasons Art Levinson gets ranked so highly in Glassdoor.com reviews:

“Great products that make a difference in people’s lives, smart, interesting, fun people, company clearly values its employees and takes good care of them, very science and patient-driven, great perks and lovely campus.”

“A lot of employee centric benefits, along with the chance of working for a company that is very cutting edge. The company has a lot of potential for the future, and this is a great place to gain experience and to be able to include as part of my professional resume. This is a very friendly environment where employees are encouraged to network as well as take time off to be able to decompress. Every 6 years, a six week sabbatical is included to coincide with the 5 weeks of vacations that can be accrued for a total of 11 weeks off (that’s nearly 3 months off in 1 year.”

“A strong emphasis on communications and collaboration. A company wide decision-making structure that intrinsically forces authority downward to the lowest possible level providing many opportunities to exercise and test one’s judgment.”

NAUGHTY: A Department Manager at Office Depot in Dallas, Texas writes “Fire Odland and kill ridiculous programs like ones listed above. Please, Please, Please give this company back to its workers. The corporate office in Delray Beach, FL is asleep at the wheel and frankly incompetent. Maybe If some of them would listen to or maybe even spend a few hours in a store they would understand their own business a little better. This company will fail If you do not get back to basics! Cheap no hassle prices and fast checkout! NO MORE PROGRAMS PLEASE!”

The naughty list is synonymous with our “Watch List” – a term we coined for the CEOs with the highest disapproval ratings (with at least 50 reviews) and are at risk of being ousted. Other CEOs who’ve made the list, include recent additions like CSAA Inter-Insurance Bureau‘s James R. Pouliot (62% disapprove), Amgen‘s Kevin Sharer (54% disapprove), Sun Microsystems‘ Jonathan Schwartz (50% disapprove) and eBay‘s John Donahoe (49% disapprove). RainBird CEO Anthony LaFetra is a “Watch List” veteran who remains a close second, followed by AOL CEO Randy Falco who is the third least popular.

In looking back on our Watch List members this year, a few received their own pink slips.  Any opinions which CEO on the “naughty” list is next?  Anyone else who should be?

*CEO Approval Ratings are based on more than 50 employee reviews

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