Do you prefer micromanagers or delegators

[ThoughtBubbles]

I just admitted the terms and reasons for which I prefer one style over another. There was no intention to portray those who prefer the other style in a negative manner

Oh I wasn't offended. I'm about as far from preferring micromanagement as they come. I quit a very well regarded position because my boss was a serious micromanager. People thought I was a bit crazy for that, but I just. Couldn't. Do. It. I doubt anyone else would be offended either.

I was just saying it's kind of like asking a group of men, "Do you prefer being pussywhipped or an independent decision maker in your relationship ?"

See how like... yes, there are guys who DO like being "pussywhipped"... but it's got kind of a negative connotation to admit to it? It's not wrong to ask it, it just would go against human psychology to admit to something like that a lot of times unless the person is very reflective lol.

I wasn't saying your intentions were bad, just that there is an implication behind how you worded it that people wouldn't naturally admit to even if it were the case.

 

[Virtual ghost]

The one that knows when it is time for delegating or micro and with whom to deploy which strategy. Operations happen in time and space and can't be efficiently done with one dimensional approach in most cases.

There is a difference between micromanagement and being a jerk.

 

[Abcdenfp]

I do not like to be micromanaged and I rarely use that management style. however i have seen senarios where its necessary but its usually when a person is in a position thats not suited for them and their superior has a project that the outcome relects heavily on them and they dont believe in the persons ability to complete the job and so they micromanage. However if you have the ability to build your own team and move staff around, there should be no need for this style.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Edited OP so that people will stop thinking of micromanagement in a negative light

 

[Yuurei]

Edited OP so that people will stop thinking of micromanagement in a negative light

I will never stop seeing Micromanaging as negative. It’s a form of control, gaslighting and in some rare cases, psychological abuse. Unless someone is truly and severely mentally deficiant, there is no excuse to ever treat an individual in such a way.

 

[The Cat]

Mine is an elegant simplicity.

 

[anticlimatic]

I can't handle micro management and will go out of my way to get any supervisor fired whose control issues mandate they try it with me. I probably wouldn't mind if any of them ever had a greater degree of competence, knowledge, and intuitive approach to the task at hand, but that is very seldom the case. Just give me a list, sit back, and watch the runaway locomotive of my work ethic plow through it. No need to waste company time reminding me of why you're the one that handles people for a living. Leave the physics type stuff to me.

 

[Jaguar]

I can't handle micro management and will go out of my way to get any supervisor fired whose control issues mandate they try it with me. I probably wouldn't mind if any of them ever had a greater degree of competence, knowledge, and intuitive approach to the task at hand, but that is very seldom the case. Just give me a list, sit back, and watch the runaway locomotive of my work ethic plow through it. No need to waste company time reminding me of why you're the one that handles people for a living. Leave the physics type stuff to me.

If you are as talented as you think and not having delusions of grandeur, a smart manager will leave you alone to do your thing.

 

[Tellenbach]

It's a fact that many workers are F-ups, especially in government bureaucracies. A couple weeks ago, I hear a story of social workers leaving an abused child with the abuser despite multiple reports from neighbors over several years; the child was eventually murdered. We hear stories of Securities and Exchange Commision workers surfing the net for porn prior to and while the 2008 financial crises was occurring. One Postal worker was hiding bags and bags of mail in his backyard because he didn't want to deliver them. There are situations (pretty much all union and government jobs) where micro-managing is absolutely required.

Every supervisor/manager should do periodic audits of work performance (especially of new hires) and then determine how long of a leash each worker gets.

 

[Jaguar]

If many workers are fuckups, the biggest fuckup of all is the person who hired them.

 

[anticlimatic]

If you are as talented as you think and not having delusions of grandeur, a smart manager will leave you alone to do your thing.

As has been the case- except with a small handful of incompetent freaks with control issues. Suffice to say, getting rid of them was easy. They did most of the work towards that end.

 

[violetsunrise]

Neither I prefer Team workers

 

[Lib]

I've always thought that micromanagement is just a form of managerial incompetence. Speaking from personal experience as someone who has micromanaged and has been micromanaged. It's an inefficient approach to work. Micromanaging and guiding/teaching are two different things.

 

[cascadeco]

I do not like to be micromanaged and I rarely use that management style. however i have seen senarios where its necessary but its usually when a person is in a position thats not suited for them and their superior has a project that the outcome relects heavily on them and they dont believe in the persons ability to complete the job and so they micromanage. However if you have the ability to build your own team and move staff around, there should be no need for this style.

I agree. Micromanaging can be necessary with certain employees; especially if they haven't built up any credibility or trustworthiness that they are actually able to deliver or doing the job at all.

I have always pretty proactively gotten things done or done things of my own accord that I knew needed doing, before needing to be told to do it. But, though someone checking in on me or highly micromanaging me might be highly irritating, I don't think it would impact me hugely otherwise since my own style tends to be on top of things anyway, so ... the micromanager wouldn't have much to pester me about iow and would probably eventually mostly leave me alone.

I prefer clarity over no direction whatsoever, so...wherever that lands me.

 

[tinker683]

Delegators. The worst homeowners I work for are the ones who have to pick everything apart and second guess everything I have to do. I can still work with these people, but firm boundaries have to be set up in order for the both of us to function capably.

 

[Peter Deadpan]

I don't.

 

[Peter Deadpan]

11/10 times, I'm the one irritated with the incompetence of others, including those above me. They should put me in charge for just one day...

There are SUPERVISORS who have been here ages who DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRANSFER A PHONE CALL.

I can't even with this place.

 

[Stigmata]

This is true. Same as some need that office environment/camaraderie/part of a team mentality too - working remotely isn't an attractive option.

This rings true for me. As much of a strongly introverted individual I can be at times, the more I've learned about myself, the more I've realized I'm ultimately a people person. In order to keep me engaged, I need to be able to bounce ideas off people and feed off the energy of the room.

Once upon a time I thought I'd be happy working remotely with minimal contact with others, and while I'd probably initially enjoy it, I know deep down that in order for me to keep focused that I require the presence of other, more diligent people to be around me.

 

[Wunjo]

Neither. I dislike antish way of thinking/working except times that I can have a lot of respect for the supervisor in question. Office work is not for me, I am much more efficient working alone, doing my own thing.

 

[Galena]

In the early stages of a project or job I might appear to have extremely comprehension of abstraction, and this stage is a wall of fear because I know how this comes across to some people, but after this stage, the mechanical questions stop and I do imagine and create new things independently, bouncing off this solid framework. If the leader and I are especially different and a tension emerges for that reason, I am willing to talk through it - in fact, I will probably initiate.

In my last job, I have received feedback both that I am someone who can do "worker bee" style abnormally fast (once I have the workflow nailed down) and am a competent investigator who will find and fix little lynchpins in a more abstract project that the requester didn't even know they needed. In all of my jobs, I have always found my place although it's not always the first process I am placed in.

If this sounds defensive, it is because as a child, I was mistaken for someone who demands micromanagement.