Incompetent Management?
February 24, 2007
Our workforce is suffering from a problem of epidemic proportions: The vast majority of managers can’t manage their people and is incapable of understanding the relationship between people and organizations. If you don’t believe that we have a lot of unhappy workers, just listen what your people are actually saying. Employee satisfaction is at an all time low. Nobody trusts management. Despite all the lip-commitment of top management of the importance of people, nothing is done to ensure the organization has competent managers or satisfied people. In today’s organization it is crucial to have competent, loyal managers to provide the drive and leadership that moves the business forward.
To a substantial degree, substandard performance of employees is centered in four areas: Insufficient planning and control (37%), inadequate management (28%), poor working morale (15%), ineffective communications (8%) – all in effect attributable to untrained, if not incompetent, management.
All the above is rarely the fault of the individual manager, these guys work blind-folded in an adverse culture. Corporations have to discover a solid modern management culture.
May 22, 2011 at 6:04 pm
The more business draws management material from the nation’s MBA programs, the more true these flaws will be. The first attribute of a real manager is competence and knowledge of the business. No one sprouting from a general purpose program like an academic MBA program can know anything, let alone anything useful to a productive business.