Is your Manager Good or Bad?

Research conducted by Gallup Organization (Buckingham, M. (2005)), in which 80,000 managers were surveyed for two years and found in detail the top performers. He found that there is one quality that makes up a true and a great manager, which is discovering the uniqueness of each person and maximizing on it. Great managers will know the values and the special qualities of their employees and to integrate best with the work plan. 

Great leaders on the other hand, are able to explore universally and maximize on it. They bring people to a great future ahead and can only succeed without looking at the difference of race, age, nationality, sex and personality. There are various models of leadership for anyone who likes to become a leader. Managers task is to get the talents of the person and apply that into performance. Moreover, managers who identify differences within people and face challenges on employees, succeed in their own ways. A manager must also be aware of the different role or skills of each employee that is needed. (Buckingham, M. (2005))

Another web article, Donovan, M. (2023), claimed that emotional intelligence is used by good managers, and they also use soft skills to achieve on being a good manager. Managers who can strategically incorporate employee’s strengths are best managers. Nowadays, individuals who have the emotional intelligence and with four skills which are self-awareness, self - management, relationship management and social awareness are what makes good performers in the company. 

Do you know the roles and responsibilities a manager should undertake?

As managers are very important assets to an organization, we must learn how managers undergo their roles and responsibilities as a manager in the organization. Coordinating the work among employees and bringing the best out of them and making sure the organization grows are the primary role a manager should have. 

More roles and responsibilities of a manager include: -

Vision of the goals for the organization: - Managers should understand the main goals aiming the organization. Managers must communicate effectively to their employees on the goals they want to achieve for the organization.

Managing the growth of the organization: - Managers must focus on sustaining the growth of the business and will need to take a closer look at the organization by scanning and analyzing the internal and external environment to identify threats to the business.

Increase efficiency of the firm: - Manager needs to ensure that resources are used properly without wasting them. Alos, managers must improve and maintain the efficiency of the firm.

Innovative thinking: - The manager should have an innovative thinking in his work. Managers need to look for strategies and creative solutions to the problems occurred in the organization. 

Leadership: - Managers should inspire and motivate their employees in the organization and be a good leader to them. Further, manager must have leadership skills to direct employees in a proper way. 

Does your manager have bad qualities that affect company’s vision? 

Managers who cannot properly carry out or fear on their job are those people with bad qualities, which are listed below (Kforce, (2023)):-

• Micromanaging employees by overlooking at employees and monitoring their work until they do everything properly.
• Avoiding about discussing on employee’s goals and only talking about getting tasks completed.
• Not giving proper feedback on employee’s task on a job that was done and completely re-doing the task entirely by him/herself. 
• Grabbing the spotlight from the team’s huge success on a project.
• Staying idle for workplace conflicts from employees.
• Making promises to the team and hoping for any inputs from employees.

What do you think are the qualities of a great manager?

Managers who can balance their work and social life and aim for the mission and goals in a project are good qualities, which are listed below (Schooley, (2023)):-

• Being a good coach.
• Empowering the team.
• A good communicator for listening and sharing information.
• Having a proper vision for the team.
• Being productive and goal oriented.
• Having proper technical skills and giving good advice to the team.
• Helping on career development with the team.
• Caring about individuals on their success and personal well-being.
• Emotionally resilient managers should be aware of moods that can impact on others.
• Diversifying and allocating tasks and schedules according to person’s capacity. 

To learn more on what great managers do, have a look at the video below,

Donovan, M. (2023) quoted that “Having a good manager is essential, like breathing. And if we make managers better, it would be like a breath of fresh air.” 

Overall, managing a team has its challenges but managers should be able to hold the power from the top employees in the workplace in future. No-one is born perfect and are not known to influence others to be their best (Kforce, (2023)). 

References

Anbarasan (2022) Definition of manager with roles & responsibilities, Apptivo. Available at: https://www.apptivo.com/blog/who-is-a-manager-what-are-the-roles-and-responsibilities-of-a-manager/ (Accessed: April 17, 2023).

Buckingham, M. (2005) What great managers do, Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2005/03/what-great-managers-do (Accessed: March 20, 2023). 

Donovan, M. (2023) What makes a good manager?, Culture Amp. Available at: https://www.cultureamp.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-manager (Accessed: March 20, 2023). 

Kforce, (2023) 7 signs of a bad manager and how to fix it, Kforce Staffing & Solutions. Available at: https://www.kforce.com/articles/7-signs-of-a-bad-manager/ (Accessed: March 21, 2023).

Schooley,  (2023) Business News Daily. Available at: https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6129-good-manager-skills.html (Accessed: March 20, 2023).