Micromanagement

Laser light micromanaged reactions, directed to the production of desired products (Flam, 1994). 

Some whites who have the same title as I do but they are given more responsibility. Management tmsts them more and they are not micromanaged. .. Even though my track record is better. I am convinced, given my performance, if I had been a white male I would be a vice president. 

The Vagelos Merck had its cracks, of course. Less charitably, his style could be described as micromanaging if you had to wait for the chief of research to interview every Ph.D. who was hired, let alone every midlevel chemist, it could take a long time to fill a job opening. Indeed, the ultracentralization... 

By various accounts, he has micromanaged the scientists independent research in ways they weren t used to. His former deputy, Roger Perlmutter, quit after ongoing fights. When... 

A Win-Lose Situation. The worker is receiving too much oversight hy the leader-micromanaged. The worker feels scrutinized. A Win-Win situation. The worker is receiving a high level of attention by the leader and feels more confident about accomplishing die complex task. 

Standard operating procedures should handle the first issue and having the right team members should handle the second issue. Planning in more detail than this will result in unmotivated team members (i.e., micromanagement) and a schedule that is too cumbersome and detailed for tracking. 

Bartel, D.P. Chen, C.Z. Micromanagers of gene expression the potentially widespread influence of metazoan microRNAs. Nat. Rev. Genet 2004, 5 (5), 396-400. 

We were not micromanaging Grenada intelligencewise until about that time frame, said Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, when asked what was happening on the island just prior to the United States 1983 rescue mission. 

Process development activities are planned to run parallel to each other to the greatest extent possible. Standard operating procedures, guidelines, and protocols need to be in place for aU key activities, from lab scale until commercialization. The activities are micromanaged through project management tools. In this section we discuss various key factors associated with process development and their impact on the product quality and yield. Instead of discussing the complete synthetic sequence of any particular product, we illustrate typical problems that could arise in any development process with real-life case studies from our experience. 

There is control, yet freedom exists by eliminating micromanagement. 

Functional Hierarchy versus bureaucracy. A functional hierarchy is not the hierarchy that exists as a barrier in health care today, such as the hierarchy of power differentials between physicans and nurses, physicians and patients. Rather, a functional hierarchy is a system of formal rules, structures, procedures, training, and decision making in the service of organizational mission and values. In a safety culture, there is a clear chain of command so that jteople at the sharp end know where to go for help, but hierarchies are flexible and can be modified when organizational conditions so warrant. Senior managers see the big picture and therefore do not micromanage instead, they attend to patterns and systems. De-... 

Seeing Ike big picture. Senior managers do not micromanage. Instead, they attend to patterns and systems. 

First, let s deal with reality. It is impossible for top-tier executives to know what is going on in their organizations all the time and/or at lower levels in fact, this is not their responsibility. Micromanagement is toxic behavior for leaders we know this. Rather than micromanaging, each leader must ensure the people whom he/she is responsible for understand and practice what is right, the right decisions and behaviors. 

May be less likely to get the job (and hard to prove discrimination) May encounter prejudice or discrimination, e.g. unfriendly colleagues micromanagement by boss being passed over for promotion... 

Supervisors who practice or believe that team members basically follow theory X behavior will coerce, threaten, punish, and so on in order to motivate workers. The theory X supervisor believes that workers are basically lazy and bad. If the supervisor is not on the workers at all times, the workers will always take advantage of the supervisor. Theory X supervisors do not trust the workers they supervise. In today s terms, the theory X supervisor might be called a micromanager, and probably a lot of other terms we won t print here. 

Doing their subordinates tasks for them (micromanaging)... 

Fourth, management must continuously appraise subordinate performance and provide positive feedback while not micromanaging these same personnel. 

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