Management? Never Been Easier
April 4, 2025
Age-Old Management Techniques That Still Happen
Millennials and Gen Z focus on prioritizing mental health and not dealing with the same BS as earlier generations. Some might see these priorities as infantile, but even past generations didn’t like them. INC breaks down “4 Really Bad Management Behaviors That Drive Good Employees Away” and the article really drives home how these management techniques have been in place for eons.
There article’s author Marcel Schwantes starts with a very wise statement: “Not everyone in management should be there.” He then breaks down four poor management techniques…er…behaviors that employees have been fed up with since forever. The first is shooting down their workers’ ideas. This happens on a daily basis and no one in the modern workforce won’t experience this at some point in their careers. Sometimes ideas need to be shot down, but other times a different way of doing something is just what the doctor ordered.
The second is treating people like numbers. This is a totalitarian perspective that runs rampant in corporate America, China, and North Korea. Businesses want measurable results and bodies in places to fill quotas. This doesn’t always lead to good results and the number one thing companies learn is how many people they’ll turn over in a year.
Micromanaging is number three. Micromanagers believe everything has to be done by the book or no one can do anything better than them. They watch their employees like hawks, creating a stifling environment. This creates stress and more mistakes on part of the employees. No one thrives with micromanagers.
The last poor management behavior is hoarding information and only sharing on a need-to-know basis if any. When this technique thrives in a work environment, employees are working in the dark with a flash light that only turns on once in a while.
Schwantes finishes with:
“Want to keep your best people? Treat them like people. Connect with them. Support them. Give them what they need to thrive. Because when you invest in your team, serve their needs, and remove obstacles from their path, they’ll run through walls for you—and that’s how you grow into the leader everyone wants to work for.”
No matter how far technology and human advances, we’ll always be dealing with these management behaviors. Dan anyone else imagine cavemen…er…people dealing with these? They probably didn’t put ump them and whacked their managers over the head with a club.
Whitney Grace, April 4, 2025
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