Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Chapter 9 Discussion

1. Dysfunctional Managers: can be toxic to the environment because a lot of the time they stifle good ideas and can drive away employees. Some of the behaviors causing this are intensity to others, inability to be a team player, arrogance, poor conflict management skills, inability to meet business objectives, and inability to adapt to change. There are programs that can help with this.
2. My experience with this has been that when I worked at a scrap booking store my manager was afraid of me because my dad was one of the owners of the company. She would always tell all the workers that they had to work hard when I was around. It made me really mad because it shouldn't matter if my dad owned the company or not. Everyone should be working hard no matter what.
3. I think in this situation it would have helped to treat me the same as all the other girls. I had an interview like all the rest, I had to be trained just like everyone else. I think it would be hard being a manager but I have seen many effective managers and I think they are that way because they are well balanced, kind but stubborn when she needed to be. I hope I can one day be able to master the art of being an excellent manager.
4. My question would be why might people not try hard when they are the manager? Don't they realize they could put their job in jeopardy. I just think you would want to work harder to keep your position because a lot of time it is better than being an employee and getting paid minimum wage.

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