Prologue
During my tenure I have experienced an array of vicissitude. Most of my time has been a pleasure, but of course, there have been times of discontent. I can appreciate the attempt to ensure the progress of a company, but there comes a point where one must question whether the progress pursued is beneficial or detrimental. When that time comes, and your opinion leads you to believe it is the later. An obligation arises to reassess your position within the environment, and weigh the mutual benefits against the bilateral impediments.
Rumination
Oppressive Domination : Most do not appreciate being micro-managed into obsolescence. After years of building a career, one would believe they have an effective grasp on how to perform their duties. A company’s trend toward invasive and impotent regulation and restriction is simply petulant. The feeble attempts to mask those attempts under the veneer of “cost savings” is contemptible. These over excessive attempts to permeate every aspect of individual routine are never productive, and in truth, the sheer disdain prevalent in its execution is offensive. A good employee has no desire to be treated as a child, and would have no interest in management’s aggressive egocentric agenda. As a highly skilled professional, one has earned the respect to be treated as such. Spending money in nefarious methods to increase burden on employees is not a productive endeavor, especially when the money is spent in the wrong places by the very people that should be the subjects of the intended scrutiny.
Superficial Insight : Common sense predicates, it is extremely futile to replace management with individuals whom have no insight, experience, or contribution to the jobs they are tasked to oversee. This is yet another example of insufficient resources needed to perform the job. If you know nothing of who I am, what I do, the environment in where I do it, or how it gets done, what can you provide besides obstruction?
Direction
There have been a number of concerning developments over the last few years. These things have led to questions about the direction that companies are progressing.
1. A preference for politics over production. This is an acceptable environment only for those interested in short-term self-gratifying accentuation; it does not promote a company’s long-term success.
2. An unsettling trend to adopt policies that are less efficient for the sake of being more imperious. While certain standards should be enforced, micro-managing to propagate extreme burden and suffocation of individual contributions does not elicit a productive environment.
3. A lack of transparency and communication. Providing a facade for a goal, does not instill trust. When what is said, is not what is done, moral is the penance.
4. The adoption of fear and intimidation to supplant dignity and respect. When you degrade trust, you desecrate loyalty.
In the end, you cannot treat colleagues like dogs, muzzle them, chain them down, punish them for not performing, then demand that they be obedient. The results are never positive.
One can observe too many instances of;
1. Promises made to customers that cannot be fulfilled.
2. Promises made to employees that will not be fulfilled.
3. Inadequate resources to accomplish tasks.
4. Authority without responsibility.
5. Unreasonable expectations irrespective of reality.
There is far too much “management” attempting to analyze every variable, while conveniently excluding itself from the equation.
Resolution
As these are my own opinions you will receive them with the worth that you see fit. However, when the results of ones environment lead them to feel that customers encourage with more respect and appreciation than that received from their own management, that environment is no longer constructive to any parties involved.
I have participated in plenty of environments that have diverged toward this mafia management. Flagrantly espousing inefficient practices of invasive micro-managing, monitoring, subjugation, and division. Callous bureaucrats dictating direction using ineffectual bar charts and pie graphs, with no intuition or insight.
When employees are treated as drudges, and management fills its ranks with minions, the moral fabric of the environment is annihilated. And when the inevitable results of this cataclysm finally approach, golden parachutes save the affluent, while leaving the serfs in calamity.
Those with foresight or experience will recognize the signals. And those with the confidence to identify their value, and embrace their courage, will exonerate themselves of such shackles.
Those with no other options will eventually be bludgeoned into submission and eventually driven into exhaustion.
The final result is a company eradicated.
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