Replying to LO30422 --
Dear Organlearners,
Gray Southon <gray@southon.net> wrote:
>It seems to me that you confuse the process of management
>with the role of manager.
Greetings dear Gray,
Thank you for the tip which i will take heed of. Furthermore, English is
not my mother tongue so that i might have used the one word where the
other was intended.
>Perhaps the question needs to be how management is best
>achieved and to what extent the process needs to be specialised,
>than to demonise the concept of management because some
>specialist screw it up.
I agree with you. However, i will not say "specialised", but rather say
"improved". The big problem as i see it, is that managers have been
trained to see their job as one of control rather as one of guidance. They
view their subordinates as machines which have to be programmed. I
recently had a very difficult situation in which I had to give guidance.
Fortunately, where i work myself, this is not a prevailant problem.
With care and best wishes
At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za>
Snailmail: A M de Lange
Gold Fields Computer Centre
Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria
Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
--"AM de Lange" <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za>
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