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The European Central Bank promotes personnel who “know the right people” instead of those who work well in their work, employees have affirmed in a union survey.
Only 19 percent of BCE The employees surveyed by the IPSO Union believed that the Central Bank “does a good job by promoting the most competent people.”
“The staff is angry with [what they believe is] The generalized favoritism in the ECB, “said Carlos Bowles, vice president of IPSO, to Financial Times, added that employees felt” that the leadership of the ECB is not doing anything about it. “
The survey, which responded 30 percent of the 4,700 staff of the ECB, is the last to suggest staff dissatisfaction in the Frankfurt institution. A separate study last year also pointed out Growing stress levels among employees.
In the last survey, which did not include the 500 apprentices of the Central Bank, 77 percent of respondents said that “knowing the right people” was key to advancing the organization. This was compared to 65 percent of the WHO that had that opinion in a similar survey a decade ago.
At that time, 46 percent of respondents said that good performance led to promotion, compared to only 34 percent now.
The most recent survey, conducted in February, also suggested that the employees of the Central Bank do not always feel comfortable posing problems with management. More than two thirds said they were “reluctant to reveal problems or errors” to senior management, compared to the 42 percent that opinion had a decade ago.
Communication was another delicate issue, with two thirds of respondents saying that they did not trust ECB communications on human resources policies.
The ECB said he was “carefully looking at the survey and analyzing the results.” But he pointed out that in his own personnel survey in 2024, which had twice as part of participants, 85 percent of employees said they were proud to work for the Central Bank. Billing among permanent employees is only 1.8 percent per year. “We are in an environment where colleagues really leave,” the General Director of Human Resources of the ECB told the FT.
Murciano said that decisions on internal promotions were taken by a panel of at least three employees extracted from different departments and often involved anonymous evidence.
The results of the survey may have been influenced by employees with temporary contracts that had a different perspective than the majority of the ECB with permanent contracts, Murcian added.