I had seen my labours compalining about their foremans for the work pressure and shouting to do work fast. same Foreman's sitting frustrated on his Site engineer for work pressure and shouting to get the work faster, with minimum resources.
Site engineer's eating pain killers for head ache and abusing the project managers due to lack of information and plans
project managers frustrated on consultant for not providing the approval at right time, on the personal dept. for not providing enough resources, purchase dept. for not providing the materials and so on.
the list goes on like that. till the ultimate owner of the organisation. even he will be frustrated on the clients, govt. dept., the banks, etc etc.
Frustration at higher levels, gets passed on to the lower side. but remember it is always much hotter towards the higher side.
Employees must understand, your boss must be getting much tougher dozes from his superior. he must be even getting more F words than you.
cool down. take a deep breath, rather than trying to find the mistake in his intention, try to understand your boss.
Tomorrow, when you will sit on his chair, being held responsible for any mistake of your subordinates, You may be much bigger nuisance. Think about it.
RE:TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR BOSS
by Gagandeep Singh on Jan 13, 2008 04:22 PM Permalink
Agreed. Every boss has a boss and the good/bad deal starts at the top. But if the owner of company is not organized enough to make his team work ethically and in less stressful environment, the company will never Grow, thus increasing stress to higher levels for everyone. Every employee can get a chance to shift to other organization but no owner can take this step. So it is in Owner's hands to keep the environment comfortable or he will loose money he spends to train an employee, everytime someone leaves his bloody rganization. Take my word, be friendly, understand your employee. I have worked as a boss and as a subordinate and have always tried to make my subordinates comfortable at their respective positions.
RE:TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR BOSS
by GN on Jan 13, 2008 04:36 PM Permalink
If you compare a small SSI unit with few employees, the matter will be totally depend on the decision on the owner. With a wrong attitude he can damage a lot, but at the same time, being a small company he can gamble to replace anybody at any moment and still control his business and boast his ego more.
But when you consider the larger scale business and specially Multi national companies, the effect of such frustrations and employee satisfactions are taken care more. Even the monthly team meat, and staff breifing are common part in todays world. Even the newsletters reporting the progress of projects, tenders even at different regions are provided to staff to keep them motivated and create a proudness about the organisation you are working with.
Even in this type of companies you will find people, who had started career from bottom levels, reaching to the sr. management positions. but once they reach the top level, they forget the path they traveled and try to finish off , demoralise the upcoming subordinates.
