HR Digest

JUNE 25, 2023

A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that companies with engaged employees are 20% more profitable than those with disengaged employees. Show Trust and Autonomy: Trust your employees to do their jobs without micromanaging them. Give them autonomy and the chance to make decisions.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

Micromanagement is bad enough when it comes from a manager, but it’s even worse coming from a peer. To manage your bossy colleague you’re going to have to say something direct and assertive. Ask other coworkers who are frustrated with the control freak to support you if your manager resists taking action.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2019

There are key HR practices that have been there for decades, providing HR professionals with clear guidelines for successful people management. And in recent times, Human Resource practices have included flexible working time, dress code, fun programs at work, employee trust, avoiding micromanagement , etc.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 7, 2013

Employees are happier when they have control over their work and are not micromanaged. A survey of employees’ concerns or gripes can provide great insight into what management can do to improve its corporate culture. Plus, upper management can benefit from mentoring. Establish trust. Poll the ranks. Communicate.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

It can be used to identify the risks that workers face today, which should be acknowledged and recognized by both HR and management. Artificial intelligence is considered today to be the most creative and promising field for workforce management. Performance Management. People Analytics.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Micromanagement gets most of the attention, but under-management may be just as big a problem. As the name suggests, there’s just not quite enough management being done—and results often suffer as a result. In baseball parlance, Jamie was “a player’s manager.”

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Coaching Tip

JULY 27, 2012

Since leadership development is not an event, that's a significant investment in classroom activities that may or may not produce company leaders or even better managers. Managers need ongoing coaching to get in the habit of being good leaders. Yet, you don't fix people by sending them off to training.

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Surviving Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

All employees want a manager who stays away until needed, right? Believe it or not, there ARE employees out there who want a little more direction and guidance on their day-to-day work and wouldn’t see it as micromanaging. You may think a hands-off approach is the best way to work. They’d see that as support.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2019

If you are trying to control or even micromanage every process in your organization, you are going to get overwhelmed very soon. If you look after them, you will be able to offer better quality services and products to your market, and reduce your recruitment and human resource costs.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In a grand example of the breakdown between management and workers, Hostess Brands recently declared bankruptcy after failed negotiations with its striking workers. The incident incited a host of postmortem commentaries placing blame on poor management or unreasonable unions. If the Twinkie can’t make it in this economy – who can?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

However, when performed together, your department, plant or organization will be transformed into a sophisticated retention machine that will be the envy of your fellow managers or competitors. The following are several must-do actions items for retaining the high-value human assets you’ve worked so hard to acquire: Start at the top!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Managing your star performers should be no sweat, right? How do you manage someone who is knocking it out of the park? Whether your star performer has just joined your team or has been working for you for a while, here are some tips on how to manage her. And don’t micromanage. Think about development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Human Resources, and the publisher of the Myers-Briggs, these assessments are still administered millions of times per year for personnel selection, executive coaching, team building and conflict resolution. Conflict Managing yourself Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. From the day he opened his first TV and appliance retail store in Richmond, Virginia, Sam understood that management means getting results through the efforts of other people.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

For instance, Gil Amelio was Apple’s CEO for less than a year in 1997, and General Motors’ chief human resources officer decamped in 2018 after just eight months in the job. The new situation left her feeling “micromanaged,” and she moved on two years later.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.” It influences whether they have close or distant relationships with the people who report to them, communicate directly or indirectly, micromanage or empower, encourage debates or shut them down.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

How talent management is changing. For example, Sir Alex Ferguson, the legendary Manchester United coach, famously recommended David Moyes as his successor despite the fact that he had never managed a big club or won a trophy. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. But consider the micromanager who asks you to document every step of your calculations so that he can be sure you got the right answer.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Micromanage the worker and clinically scrutinizing the employee’s work to highlight incompetence and find reasons to abuse the worker. Workplace bullying is not to be managed, provided it’s posing health and safety risks. Make unreasonable demands or illogical requests. When does it become legally actionable?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers. Most organizations standardize work for managers by testing it on a small scale in one pilot unit. Standardizing work processes is a concept from lean management.).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

A high level of trust between managers and employees defines the best workplaces and drives overall company performance and revenue. Over my many years of helping organizations create high-performance workplaces, I’ve seen firsthand how untrustworthy managers damage morale and productivity. As Stephen M.

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