1 Jerk = $160K<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ve all experienced managers who are either idiots or just complete jerks.\u00a0 The fact of the matter is that these types of managers are often not just making life difficult for your employees, but they are actually impeding productivity and profits from flowing into your organization.<\/p>\nSome managers are hated because there\u2019s just a mismatch of style.\u00a0 A productive and capable employee may not want or need to be micro-managed and this conflict of style will simply lead to resentment.\u00a0 Getting leaders and managers to understand how to deal with these differences in style and be flexible is critical to employee engagement, and in this example, is critical to the engagement of what could be a great producer.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, some managers are just universally hated.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard sometimes to identify the course of action for these managers.\u00a0 I worked for one once that was so reviled that I\u2019d never seen morale lower in any organization.\u00a0 The problem was that his organization was producing well above the goals set for him, so senior management never saw to terminate the relationship.\u00a0 The real story behind the scenes was that his group was composed of very self motivated salespeople in a good market.\u00a0 This simply meant that they were going to produce anyway.\u00a0 The long term damage was certainly in lost productivity (on top of already exceptional productivity), morale, turnover, and in performing tasks that were dictated to us, but completely unnecessary.<\/p>\n
Identifying these managers and removing them from management is a critical task in the talent process for management and succession.\u00a0 When we get into critical management positions, leadership becomes increasingly important.\u00a0 While overall production, sales, and productivity are important indicators, your employee engagement surveys are equally if not more critical in today\u2019s talent economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Peter Drucker:\u00a0 \u201cSo much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to do work.\u201d A while back I had a post around \u201c1 Jerk = $160K.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ve all experienced managers who are either idiots or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement","category-strategies","category-talent-management","category-workforce-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}