I have been wondering about the role of management in a firm from the past so many days. What is an ideal manager, a perfect team, an examplary work-environment and most-importantly satisfactory work! Management need not always motivate their employess for performing better but instead have to stop de-motivating them. From an employee's vista, certain things are implicitly communicated to the management which ought to be understood by them in order to perform smoothly or else they should get prepared to face the perils of the frustation. Management should be really articulate in what they intend to do. Sugar-coating difficult situations, dispassionate decisions, obdurate refusals are nothing but an absolute hog-wash. What is required for getting 100% from your employee is a piffling amount of recognition. Just a pat on the back saying 'Gud Work' would do, i guess! Commanding and controlling language is sure fire path to demotivation. There is a need to consistently maintain an ardent workforce.
Monetary benefits (or say pay), recognition of your work, appreciation for your accomplishments, good work-environment are a few defined, irreplaceable needs for an employee. No one factor can substitute the other.
Another way of incorporating demotivated environment is by squeezing the sense of security from an employee's mind. Just let them know that their jobs (or say appraisels) would be in jeopardy if they do not meet the expectations, do not complete tasks on time, do not perform well. I mean, I dont think there is any employee who does not want to perform THE best. Okay say, a few % are there who would work for the sake of work only.....but then management can not and should not generalize and explicitly state and instill this sort of insecurity in their minds.
Management should be smart but not oversmart because oversmart are the one's who are not smart!! Anyways, a good employee is the one who self-motivates himself/herself and let those managerial guys know about their incapability of holding that position.
Well enough for now...after a few days hiatus i think this was a nice topic for my blog!
4 comments:
kudos!!!
You article is like one of those eagerly awaited M night shyamlan movies...each topic is different and vivid. There is not an iota of disagreement that i have with your view.
I think a management job is not just about command and control.. it is more about making the environment more friendly and amicable for the employees. The motive should never be to 'impress'(short-term) but to imbibe trust and win hearts (long-term).
and yes...I like the title you chose.
God Speed.
I think i liked ur last sentence more than anything.It is a person's responsibility to hold back his frustations and constantly find ways to motivate and charge himself for newer challenges.The management defintely holds responsibility for lot of things but afterall they are human beings working for the company and themselves first.It depends on the person how he wants to take up the things and creating a difference whenever and wherever he wants,to make him and around him satisfied and happy.
But truly,a wonderful piece of writing after so much time.Will look forward to more insightful blogs from u.Good luck and hopefully next blog will come soon.....
Hi,
who is a good manager ? how can an ideal employee be ? these are the questions that none can answer. The only thing that i feel is, managers have to try to listen the concerns of employees and make them understand weather the concern that they have raised is right or not or why a decision,in particular, is taken that way. An employee has to perform at his/her best and try to project the concerns, if any, to the manager in a proper way. If the above is done with a friendly atmosphere between them then that would endup being a great work environment. Anyways, as u said, self motivation and positive thinking always end up giving good results...!
Nice Blog....
I think Suhasini, I would say that everybody can tell what an ideal manager and employee are.Worldwide management schools and corporate culture works on it,implement it.It is just a matter to understand the values and work on them keenly to improve people.
Blogger has raised certain relevant points.
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