Staff Approval Ratings - See Which Boss Did Best

So we did a quick poll this week, and over 13,000 people participated (some voting through their work e-mail addresses and some through personal e-mail addresses).

We simply asked staff if, given the chance, they would re-elect their CEO to serve out another term at the helm.

Now, to put things into some kind of perspective, President Obama's current approval rating is 44%.

Here are the results for those firms where we had a large enough sample:

(N = A no vote, U = An Undecided vote, SAR = Staff Approval Rating)

1. Richard Handler, Jefferies & Co - N 1.6%, U 3.7%, SAR - 94.7%

2. Howard Lutnick, BGC / Cantor Fitzgerald - N 2.7%, U 3.7%, SAR 93.6%

3. Michael McLintock, M & G Investments - N - 3.6%, U 3.0%, SAR - 93.4%

4. Ed Clark, TD Bank Financial Group - N 2.7%, U 4.1%, SAR 93.2%

5. Paul Purcell, R W Baird - N 4.3%, U 3.8% SAR - 91.9%

6. Gordon Nixon, Royal Bank of Canada - N 3.9%, U 4.4%, SAR - 91.7%

7. Paul Reilly, Raymond James  - N 4.3%, U 4.2% SAR 91.5%

8. Scott Beiser & Jeff Werbalowsky, Houlihan Lokey - N 4.3%, U 6.2% SAR - 89.5%

9. Martin Gilbert, Aberdeen Asset Management - N 5.7%, U 5.7%, SAR - 88.6%

10. Larry Fink, BlackRock - N 6.5%, U 7.2%, SAR - 86.3%

11. Peter Sands, Standard Chartered Bank - N 7.4%, U 8.3%, SAR - 84.3%

12. Brady Dougan, Credit Suisse - N 8.5%, U 7.9%, SAR - 83.6%

13. Oswald Gruebel, UBS - N 8.6%, U 8.7% SAR - 82.7%

14. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase - N 8.3%, U 9.2%, SAR - 82.5%

15. Baudouin Prot, BNP Paribas -  N 7.9%, U 9.9%, SAR - 82.2%

16. Bob Diamond, Barclays / Barclays Capital - N 13.3%, U 4.8%, SAR - 81.9%

17. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs - N 9.6%, U 8.7%, SAP - 81.7%

18. Alain Dromer, Aviva Investors - N 10.3%, U 9.0% SAR - 80.7%

19. Michael Dobson, Schroders - N 12.1%, U 11.1%, SAR - 76.8%

20. Vikram Pandit, CEO - N 12.8%, U 13.1%, SAR - 74.1%

21. Joseph Hooley, State Street - N 9.3%, U 18.9%, SAR - 71.8%

22. John Stumpf, Wells Fargo - N 15.7%, U 13.2%, SAR - 71.1%

23. Stuart Gulliver, HSBC - N 16.3%, U 13.3%, SAR - 70.4%

24. Frederic Oudea, Societe Generale - N 13.5%, U 17.4%, SAR - 69.1%

25. Kenichi Watanabe, Nomura - N 17.6%, U 15.1%, SAR - 67.3%

26. James Gorman, Morgan Stanley - N 17.3%, U 15.9%, SAR - 66.8%

27. Stephen Hester, The Royal Bank of Scotland - N 20.2%, U 15.9%, SAR - 63.9%

28. Brian Moynihan, Bank of America - N 21.3%, U 15.4%, SAR - 63.3%

29. Bob Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon - N 26.2%, U 12.0%, SAR - 61.8%

30. Jan Hommen, ING Group - N 20.7%, U 19.8%, SAR - 59.5%

31. Peter Kraus, AllianceBernstein - N 26.3%, U 17.2% SAR - 56.5%

32. Nicholas Moore, Macquarie Group - N 24.3%, U 19.5%, SAR - 56.2%

33. Peter Clarke, Man Group - N 36.3%, U 12%, SAR - 51.7%

34. Jacko Maree, Standard Bank - N 34.1%, U 22.3%, SAR 43.6%

35. Martin Blessing, Commerzbank - N 44.6%, U 16.1%, SAR - 39.3%