Friday, July 30, 2021

Micromanagement is a style:

 It is a management style whereby the supervisor very closely observes the work of individual/employees. Twice a day, Daily and weekly meeting

·   Micromanagement (own resource or project team or individual) style is built around followings:

-        Centralized decision

·   Trust or insecurity

·   Continuous monitoring (Daily/weekly)

·   excessive Control

·        Inputs vs comments on everything (Being as a Guidance / direction vs criticizing)

·        Always looking for team feedback (Talking in back and trying to get the feedback from every team player on daily basis)

·        There is budget constraint

·        Time constraint

·        Team constraint

·   Always look for someone for in case escalation/failed

·   Only success will be count

·   This will promote authoritative management skills

 

·        There is implication for micromanagement, those are listed below

·   This does not allow individual or team to grow and they cannot take decision where they can make the decision

·   Employee leaving people first which end having org as well

·   Team never grow and always scared to take challenges

·   Failures have no protection and necessary learnings

·   Overtime perhaps team performance goes down

·   This does not allow team for cohesive model

·   Team learned what leader do

·   Challenge to build true leader vs authoritative leader

 

·        Do we really need Micromanagement?

·        Yes, but in certain circumstances. There are certain conditions where

·   Big initiative and multi vendors

·        this only needs at initial stage

·        No needs for Micromanagement after certain point of time

·        Time should be very time to watch process setup

Example: Micromanagement time is needed to setup process where things can go on smoothly (PI planning where everyone did get involved and every participant do certain thing and commit deliverable now, they are bound with commitment)

·        prepare delegates so they can take care

·        Where hard timeline, budget, and federal mandate

·        As a leader need to keep balance the work among the team and keep close eye on the work distribution, that only can come through micromanagement and that is why sometimes it is integral part of some of leaders 

 ·        Do we explain to Peer if we see similar practice?