Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:48PM
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> A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up.
A good employee manages up to the extent the organization they are involved in permits, a manager is just an employee whose duties inide managing down.
But the truth of heirarchical organizations is that while managing down is universally expected (and is usually just called “managing”), managing “up” is...not (and, often, barely even tolerated), even among organizations where citing it as a way of victim-blaming is common.
A good employee manages up to the extent the organization they are involved in permits, a manager is just an employee whose duties inide managing down.
But the truth of heirarchical organizations is that while managing down is universally expected (and is usually just called “managing”), managing “up” is...not (and, often, barely even tolerated), even among organizations where citing it as a way of victim-blaming is common.