Re:The days are long but the decades are short
by kamaal on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @08:18PM
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This isn't even WFH, the person just wanted to drop their son and come to office around 5 minutes late. If you can't handle 5 minutes of delay in some one coming to office, I would deduce you must be super bad in building long lasting relationships with people. Who takes some one to task on coming a few minutes late?
This lies at the heart of the problems plaguing our Industry. The people doing the direction and management are nothing more than glorified email routers. Often who got lucky, and got promoted and now simply try to maintain their positions through command and control.
Re:The days are long but the decades are short
by ddingus on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:24AM
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This stuff is chronic in service, many production, and similar, mostly hourly, jobs.
They really don't do relationships with people. They just want the cogs to mesh, the stuff to get done, etc...
Re:The days are long but the decades are short
by mathattack on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @06:21PM
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This assumes that the managers know the details of the employee's jobs too. This gets less true when you become a general manager. But there's a big difference between "I'm managing your time" and "I'm managing your result" which the General Manager is on the hook for.
Re:The days are long but the decades are short
by taurath on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @07:53PM
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If you don't know the details of your employees jobs, you know their skillset and their ability to deliver results even if you don't know the techniques they use. If you're even slightly clever about communication styles it can work fine, although it does mean that motivation must be treated as a thing that should rarely waver. The more mature and skilled the person is and the more trust you have the less likely it is to cause issues.
Many of us are well acquainted with the indirect communication from ticket systems, email, and other sources of social noise. We're used to managers who can take a collection of tickets and email, and deduce what their reports are doing. But many people are unable to do this, or untrained.
And since they are taught to be suspicious that you're stealing from the company (as all mediocre managers are) they mistrust the tickets, email, and other documentation you create.