Is your boss a micromanager? What if you are one? Help is at hand to break the chains

[chittychitty]

SINGAPORE — Bad managers abound in every workplace and one type is easy to spot: The one who cannot trust co-workers to do their work effectively and in a timely manner, is overly anxious, and is suffocating the team by being “present” all the time.

They are called micromanagers — a term to describe bosses who monitor and control the work of subordinates excessively.

Ms Alexandra Oh, psychologist and counsellor, said clients have told her that the micromanagers they had encountered included those who expect employees to be available and responsive at all times, those who expect employees to document every hour of their work day, and those who give constant negative feedback to employees without interspersing it with positive reinforcement.

Ms Oh, who provides therapy and mental resilience training at online counselling platform Talk Your Heart Out, said that in the last one-and-a-half years, she has seen a “marked increase” in clients reporting work burnout, anxiety and depression.

Many struggle to keep up with incessant updates and over-scrutiny by their managers while working from home.

Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...t-if-you-are-one-help-at-hand-to-break-chains

 

[laksaboy]

Usually, those kind of managers bleed every month, unless of course they have passed a certain age.

Micromanaging is good if working inside a kitchen. Consider a career switch in that direction if you can't shake off that habit in an office.

 

[eatshitndie]

micromanagers usually have micropenises.

 

[chittychitty]

 

[rushifa666]

There is no problem a large baseball bat cannot solve