I have a boss who is basically a very nice person, however as a
manager, has no people skills. At every turn he writes a note.
During meetings, employee reviews, whatever. I believe this is very
demotivating, as whatever we do is not enough or not good enough.
There is no job satisfaction or decision-making for anything without
a note of criticism of some sort; no matter how well meaning it is
put.
"Thinking for ourselves" is usually knocked down with
the first note of the day. The boss writes notes all evening and
over the weekend. It seems like compulsive behavior. It seems that
he thinks that once the note is written, the task is completed and
totally disregards the workload and cannot understand firstly, why
the other notes are not completed and returned and secondly, why the
daily routine is falling behind. Also, the office is unable to even
offer the smallest criticism (constructive of course) as the boss
will take it as a personal attack and the whole office suffers as he
finds ways to pay back.
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I have a boss who is basically a very nice person, however as a
manager, has no people skills. At every turn he writes a note.
During meetings, employee reviews, whatever. I believe this is very
demotivating, as whatever we do is not enough or not good enough.
There is no job satisfaction or decision-making for anything without
a note of criticism of some sort; no matter how well meaning it is
put.