In management literature, many authors stated that managers have to care about organizational aims. But, sometimes the employees have different personal interest in comparison to the organizational aims. In that case, what should manager do? Strictly protect organizational aims or understand the interest of employees? Where is the balance?
We manage tasks with technical skills but we lead people with soft and communication skills. Most managers fail the leadership because they think that they have to manage people too.
Good answers! We share the same perspective. Srdjan Atanasijevic Zin Eddine Dadach
No. A manager may have to make tough decisions for the sake of the company or institution
This is not a binomial question. Managers have many conflicting responsibilities— to employer/institution, the consumer/public, the people under their supervision, and to themselves and their family and community.
There are very few situations where a bad person can be a good manager.
The current occupant of the White House is a particularly good example .
In health care institutions it is also essential. For managers to navigate turbulent circumstances with profound differences in social and economic status within a hispital’s staff.
Bravo! Very good answer! True, answer is very complex, because manager's job is very complex. Richard L Douglass
That would have (should have) been "hospital's " staff.
Once I had a graduate student who had the nerve to tell me that he wanted to be a senior hospital administrator so that he could, "tell people what to do."
I asked him if he really thought that a. managers always knew what to do, or if the only role of a manager was to dictate orders and directives. He looked puzzled and asked me, in return, if he had miscalculated the job description. I let him think about it....and two weeks later he changed degree programs.
Managers who succeed facilitate maximum performance....this can be accomplished in many ways, including keeping staff challenged and motivated, addressing institutional expectations .... including challenging unreasonable short-term objectives, and being comfortable with objective evaluation of effort. Managers who fail to buy into these three areas of performance will not be successful. Their staff will turnover rapidly which costs time, financial resources, and effectiveness. Failing to nurture staff simply means that the manager ends up barking to a pack of dogs who do not pay attention. Failing to participate in the development of realistic goals and objectives will end up with a team that is compromised because the institution will have expectations that cannot be met. The best managers are respected by both the institution and their staff... and their divided loyalty is always kept in balance.
Yes they definitely have to be responsible regarding their employees not only organizations. In order to maintain these attitudes they must have empathetic attitudes but also psychological skills in order to "read" their employees feelings and recognize potential source of problems or causes they may leave the organization. We agree about the importance of the employee and they will stay if you give them reason to stay.
Thanks for the good feedback. Very gratifying.
Managers need to know how to earn the trust and loyalty of those who answer to them. This is more than being a supervisor...it has a significant element of nurturing. Ethical behavior, respectful behavior, humility, and a personal Aleksandar Dejanović reputation that is equated with caring about people as well as institutional objectives can become powerful allies when you want to have your team follow you into hell. Even if "hell" only means working over a weekend to meet a deadline, or accepting new assignments with few new resources. These are all elements of leadership....a practice that is found in all healthy complex organizations and at every level below the executives.
Totalmente de acuerdo. Además de mi profesión soy gerente en una Empresa familiar. Hay que hablar con los empleados y darles confianza a todo nivel. Y respeto, mucho respeto.
A good manager succeeds by helping subordinates be successful and feel valued. A good manager collaborates with subordinates and rarely if ever "gives orders."
Absolutamente de acuerdo. Por eso, cuando se enseña la gerencia empersarial, no se deberían olvidar las ideas humanistas de Roger, Maslow u otros psicólogos y pedagogos cuyas enseñanzas están siendo injustamente ignoradas en este ámbito que, en definitiva, implica el trato con personas, sean empleados o clientes.
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