Mark Zuckerberg earned a 99 percent approval from his Facebook employees which took him to the top position in the Glassdoor's annual list of the 50 highest rated CEOs.
"Do you approve of the way your CEO is leading the company?" was the question asked to thousands of employees from different companies who gave their suggestions and accordingly Glassdoor made a list of Highest Rated CEOs of 2013.
Based on the feedback received by the employees, the CEOs were ranked according to employee approval ratings. Mark Zuckerberg replaced Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, who was the highest-rated CEO in Glassdoor's 2012 approval ratings. Cook received 93 percent approval and went all the way down to 18th position.
One of Facebook's employees said in a statement to Glassdoor that Facebook is "an open community from Zuck on down."
"Mututal trust companywide and sense of community and drive, instilled by our CEO, who we truly respect," anonymous employee continued, who works at the head quarters at Menlo Park, according to PC Mag.
Facebook described how gratifying it is to be supported by the employees and added that such a "high employee sentiment is a particularly meaningful compliment," according to PC Mag report.
Bill McDermott & Jim Hagemann Snabe of SAP shares the highest position with Zuckerberg after receiving a 99 percent approval by their employees and rose by seven points from the previous year's employees rating.
Furthermore, Dominic Barton of McKinsey & Company earned a 97 percent rating acquiring the third position in the highest rated CEO listing, placing Jim Turley of Ernst & Young in the fourth position with a 96 percent approval.
QUALCOMM's Paul E. Jacobs continued to receive the same approval rating as last year of 95 percent with an eight rank in the list followed by Richard K. Davis of the U.S. Bank at ninth and Pierre Nanterme of Accenture ranking tenth with 95 percent approval rating. Davis rose by seven percent while Nanterme got four percent higher rating this year.
Meanwhile, Ken Chenault of American Express, who made it up to the fourth position last year dropped down to the 20th position this year with a decrease of two percent. Similarly, Google's Larry Page, who also got 94 percent last year, same as Chenault, rose by one percent but couldn't manage to hold his position in the top ten list.
Joe Tucci of EMC rose by 10 percent in the employee's approval rating and rose to the seventh position all the way from the 16th position. Other CEO's including John E. Schlifske of Northwestern Mutual and Frank D'Souza of Cognizant Technology Solutions received 96 percent approval and made it to the fifth and sixth position respectively.
"The CEOs who are more successful in gaining employee approval are those who paint a clear vision of what the company is setting out to achieve and how it's going to get there," Robert Hohman, Glassdoor CEO, said in a statement. "To be recognized by your employees as a strong leader also comes as a result of having a solid company culture that helps employees foster the skills necessary to move business forward and meet the needs of customers."
