Types of Managers ! Jack Welch, CEO of GE for two decades, identified four types of managers. The hardest to deal are the Type -4 managers who are very smart and competent yet do not share the core values of the organization. In other words, they are ‘competent rouges’. It is easy to say leaders must show the way by firing them , but in reality this may be difficult because these managers may be in crucial positions and may have with them many confidential pieces of information. But the leader comes across a defining moment sooner or later, and has to take a tough call. Jack Welch identified four types of mangers along two dimensions: Competence and their values. Dealing with Type -1 managers may be easy: Show them the door. Type -3 managers are also easy to deal with: Hold fast to them –they are gems. Type-2 managers have the right values but lack competencies. They can be trained and some positions can be found where they can have better fit, though in reality many such persons cannot be retained in the organisation. Type -4 managers are the hardest to deal with –and most difficult to identify. They may appear to be dedicated, honest, and sincere but may be resorting to shortcuts and compromises to achieve their objective. In such cases, leaders need to question when someone is producing a particularly good result consistently because they may be resorting to shortcuts and unethical practices. If Type -4 managers are identified, probably they need to be told about it, and most likely they will not improve, but merely make their operations more difficult. They need to be marked and shown the door at an appropriate time. They are like cancer cells that quickly infect other members of the organisation. Source: Being Ethical, Ethics as the foundation of business by S Manikutty
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 05:01:10 +0000
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