Great read on why Micro Management is not affective! It has a negative connotation and is unanimously perceived as a counterproductive managerial style. People complain they are being “micromanaged to death”. Websites provide tips on how to deal with a micromanaging boss or avoid micromanagement. There is an interesting website Stop Micromanagement., with one of its posts titled “What do the flies and micromanages have in common”? The mere existence of which says a lot about the popularity of micromanagement. Cultures differ, however. What seems to be disastrous for America might, to some extent, work in India, China or Russia. Again, to some extent. Nevertheless, I believe that American culture is absolutely not compatible with micromanagement. And here are ten whys: 1.Respect. When workers have to deal with excessive supervision, they take it as disrespect. People say, “Don’t treat us like kids”. “I don’t want to be treated like 6 – years old”. “This is not McDonald’s”, etc. 2.Performance. Performance is a magical word. Especially in a country where your job/job performance defines your identity and is a major self-esteem building factor. Ironically, most people underperform under micromanagement. 3.Recognition. US Americans are individual players even if members of a team and they need individual recognition. Everything that a team has achieved under micromanaging somehow feels like that manager’s achievement only. 4.Self- reliance. That’s how most people function at school, college and family. Work place being no exception. You’re used to being responsible for yourself and relying on yourself. When this pattern changes all of a sudden, it’s stressful, not to say more. 5.Initiative. That’s an argument everyone seems to agree upon – micromanagement leaves no room for creativity. 6.Decision making. Total lack of decision making, especially when it comes to your direct responsibilities, makes an American worker feel deprived of something they have a right to. 7.Turnover. US American employees are always looking for something better, a better job included. Micromanagement makes people even less loyal than they could otherwise be. So, it’s a serious risk of losing good staff members who feel unappreciated. 8.You are actually making your employees “high maintenance”. They have 3 options: hate you and leave you, hate you and stay and suffer, or adjust. What’s an easy way to adjust to micromanagement? Become an employee who actually needs constant guidance. 9.Simply because nobody likes micromanages and nothing good comes out when personnel doesn’t like the manager. Even with generally good results people are dissatisfied. American culture has a high informality level, so a manager who acts as a puppet master has no chances to be popular among employees 10.Fear. Micromanaged workers subconsciously focus on how not to make mistakes instead of how to achieve better results.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:16:19 +0000
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