Employees who believe that they know their jobs and how to do them efficiently and accurately, will desire to be supervised by empowering managers while those who, for one reason or another, do not want to take responsibility will prefer micromanaging: "just tell me what to do". What's good or bad management depends on a number of factors: the level or training, experience and ability of employees; the ambition and work ethic of those employees; the balance that the manager employs while supervising his employees; the complexity of the tasks that are expected of the employees; the amount of "free" time that the manager has to micromanage and many more.
One of the greatest myths about management is that managers should working side by side with their employees, showing them that they "aren't afraid to get their hands dirty". But a manager who spends all of her time doing the same work as her employees is the ultimate in the micromanager, because she is doing the work herself. This type of manager won't be doing any empowering of employees, because she is right there with them...all the time, they don't learn to think or act on their own, because they're never on their own.
One of the greatest myths about management is that managers should working side by side with their employees, showing them that they "aren't afraid to get their hands dirty". But a manager who spends all of her time doing the same work as her employees is the ultimate in the micromanager, because she is doing the work herself. This type of manager won't be doing any empowering of employees, because she is right there with them...all the time, they don't learn to think or act on their own, because they're never on their own.
Start with Part I
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