| What are the things that bosses do that drives the | | | | later than that or else you are screwed. You can only |
| staff mad? There will be complains about bosses | | | | leave office only after 6:30pm. Not earlier than that or |
| being too meticulous at work which cause | | | | again you will be screwed. There will be no room for |
| unnecessary overhead on the staff. Staffs are made | | | | excuse if you are late and there will be no room for |
| to work late or be always on their toe in order not to | | | | discussion for leaving early. This creates unnecessary |
| be penalized. The problem of over-supervision will | | | | stress to his staff for rushing to work and having to |
| create unnecessary overhead to you and your staff | | | | arrange and abide to the work timings in the office. |
| and no productive output is created in the process. | | | | - Being the police officer and checking on everyone - |
| Find out more today if you are doing things that are | | | | The boss assumes the role of a police officer. He |
| annoying your staff! | | | | patrols your cubicle and watches your every activity. |
| - Check your grammar mistakes (not your report | | | | He goes to every corner of the office to locate where |
| content) - one of the most annoying things that a boss | | | | you are if you are not present at your desk. You get |
| can do is become an English teacher. They like to do | | | | penalized for taking too much time at the pantry |
| checks on grammatical mistakes and enjoy plucking | | | | seeping coffee or having a casual discussion with the |
| each problematic grammar made. Come on, be more | | | | girl from the accounting department. Of course, not |
| productive and work on the content! If they like to | | | | mentioning if you happened to be checking your |
| check on grammatical mistakes, its best for them to | | | | personal mail from Hotmail too! Nobody wants to be |
| have a career in teaching then what he is doing now! | | | | watch over like an inmate, relax a bit and give your |
| - Check your language structure of your reports - This | | | | staff some room to breath! If you are such a boss or |
| is acceptable at least then being an English teacher. | | | | superior, you've got to chill out a bit! Micromanaging |
| The important thing is that its objective that someone | | | | your staff in this way will only hurt you in the long run! |
| counter-checks the work before it gets sends out to | | | | You are not ensuring productivity being created. |
| senior management or the public. | | | | Through these processes that you put in place, you |
| - Enforcing working culture, styles and ideology to their | | | | enclose your staff to work in a restricted environment |
| staff - The boss always emphasizing that their work | | | | (like pigs in pig farms). You created more overhead for |
| style is the best effective method in the world. Come | | | | yourself by always performing these micromanaging |
| one, there is no best effective method! There is only | | | | tasks. You've also created overhead for your staff for |
| the best effective method that works for the individual. | | | | always having the need to abide to your |
| The boss working style may work for him (at his level) | | | | micromanaging work style. In the long run, they get |
| but may not be applicable to the others! | | | | tired of it; morale lowered and may eventually leave |
| - Enforcing timeliness of attendance at work - That is, | | | | you. Is this what you want to achieve? |
| you must reach office by 9 am in the morning. Not | | | | |