Posted on 07/11/2014 3:43:07 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Because they're SMEs, as acknowledged by management.
Most managers are nothing but private label bureaucrats. Unless they can get direct credit for any change, it's not in their interest to challenge an inherited business unit.
” I guarantee you the feeling of having no control is substantially greater in publicly-held corporations than in privately-held ones”
The corporation I owned and ran the employees had no say in anything, do as you’re told or get fired!
They shouldn’t have a say. Don’t like it, leave.
God help any organisation that you manage to be a manager in.
LOL! You apparently haven't worked in any corporate environment ever...
Well, no. There's a definite difference between whining because you don't get to be the manager and sit behind a big desk, and having managers who consistently make bad decisions because they don't bother to pay attention to what their often-times more skilled and experienced employees are telling them.
More skilled employees get the work done. Can’t let them move up. Then who will do the work? That’s been my experience from what I’ve seen.
Precisely!
I work for a Koch subsidiary, and if our location's managers put as much effort into following the much ballyhooed "guiding principles" as they do making it LOOK like they're following them, Charles Koch would be King of the World.
As I said earlier, most professional managers are nothing but private sector bureaucrats who care about nothing but avoiding being scapegoated from above.
Their one big ace in the hole is they report to someone who is not on-site, and can therefore find sufficient scapegoats of their own to justify their failures, assuming a critical mass of their subordinates are at least somewhat diligent.
Considering my own lack of experience and what I’ve seen from some co-workers, most of them don’t have a say because they don’t have a damn clue how to run a business.
Most don’t. Managers and Directors no longer are. They have all the responsibility but none of the authority.
When I hire an accounting clerk their is a “job descrpition” and I do want them to take “responsiblity” for their work.
What decision rights do they need to properly reconcile a bank account?
Interesting that you would choose accountancy as your example.
When companies start gaining and losing market share, complying with OSHA standards, maintaining critical infrastructure, and developing new products/processes, based on their high standard of bean-counting, I'll take your point.
Duh, it wasn’t an example. I have a staff of 10 full time and 3 part time.
My, my. You aren't used to having someone contradict you, are you?
That you counter by alternating between being pedantic and obtuse when you don't like what's being said, given the piss-ant size of your area of responsibility, must make you a real inspiration to your subordinates.
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