Paper Topic:

The Micromanager

Micromanager

Introduction

Micromanagement is to manage especially with extreme control or concentration

to details

Is George Latour guilty of Micromanagement

George Latour is the CEO of Retronics and he is guilty of micromanagement

He 's been micromanaging the company 's new Marketing Director , Shelly Stern . She 's

not his recruit but the board has chosen her . She is very competent and a good one . The

company has been down on the brink lately due to the new technology . He is running out

of strategies and the

board is counting on him . He was hired by the board because he has

an impressive credentials in engineering-scale systems and operations But lately when

the dot com bubble works he was running out of ideas . He has to make new approach to

convince investors . He needs a good and quality advertising . So here comes Shelly , the

Marketing Director . Her work simply affects and magnifies George performance in the

company . Here are some hints that George is guilty of micromanaging Shelly

a . She 's let her sit on some of the developer 's meeting

b She let her accompany sales /client 's call to let her see and hear from the

client 's directly

He 's even asked the CFO to explain the cash flow situation

He 'd kept editing her work

Explaining to her what really mattered to the customers , how they arrived

in their purchasing decisions

He insisted of two press releases per month even if there 's wasn 't any real

news report

Even if she 's ask for help--- an additional staff or at least an outside contractor he 'd insisted on making a list of what she 's working on and help her prioritize

He wants Shelly to be more effective in her job because she has the

potential . It would be fulfilling to mentor someone with her capacity But then again his

good intentions are not making a good result . Instead , Shelly is disconnected or

disengaged with her work . Why ? She thinks her work is not good enough for George

Every time she has an idea he kepts on editing and correcting her work . He was always

breathing on his neck as Shelly quoted . He doesn 't give credit on her work as a good

marketer . Actually , he is damaging Shelly 's self-confidence . He doesn 't accept her

opinions and is basically criticizing her work without even knowing it He is interfering

with her job and her ability of doing it right . He hovers over her trying to get her work

done and rarely , seriously considers her ideas and opinions

Conclusion

Micromanagement is a Mismanagement The micromanager handles required

management practices to the maximum and affects the employees ' ability to do their

jobs properly and causing undue stress for them . They don 't realize that they are

considerably controlling others

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