Employees’ perception of supervisors’ interest in their professional development in financial institutions in the republic of Croatia

Organizations today need leaders who understand the complexities of a rapidly growing and changing business environment. The subject of this research is employees’ attitudes on the interest of their superiors in their professional development in financial institutions in the Republic of Croatia. The objective of the study is to explain the attitudes of employees of financial institutions in the Republic of Croatia about the interest of their superiors in their professional development. The survey was conducted online. The sample size is 3141 respondents/ employees. The hypothesis “There is an interest of superiors in the personal and professional development of subordinates” is to be rejected. The obtained results show that in the financial industry in Croatia, employees find that superiors have no interest in their professional development. Through further analysis, research results provide differences in the respondents’ attitudes about the interest of their superiors in the professional development of employees in financial institutions. The interpretations are explanations of why certain groups of examinees have the attitudes they expressed, which represents the objective of the research.