Number 4 of the 6 most common reasons businesses fail is:
Treating Employees Like Children
A lot of management and employers treat their employees like children by:
- Banning tons of Internet sites.
- If someone is abusing the Internet, punish that person.
- Not delegating tasks.
- The point of hiring employees is to utilize them.
- Looking over their shoulder all day.
- Standing over the shoulder to help the employee is one thing, but to just be there is highly irritating.
- Monitoring how long people are gone for lunch
- If someone is 5-10 minutes late from their lunch, but they are meeting or exceeding their role’s expectations… is it really necessary to monitor their lunch time? What’s worse is when someone points out to their employee that the employee is 2 minutes late.
- Monitoring how long a person’s break is.
- If an employee completes all of their tasks, but takes a 20 minute break instead of 15 minutes… it’s not a big deal.
- Demanding tons of meaningless reports.
- “Did you get that memo on TPS reports?”
- Demanding tons of meaningless meetings.
- If there is not a set agenda with a specific goal to be attained, there should be no meeting.
- Not getting input from employees before changing standard operating procedures.
- This tells your employees you don’t care about or value their opinions.
Another term for all of this is Micro-Managing. Click Here to Read More…
