Comment by bjt12345
4 hours ago
"WHY IS IT THAT MANAGERS ARE typically running out of time while their subordinates are typically running out of work?"
This was written in 1974 and times have surely changed because I never wonder this.
Instead I wonder why subordinates are typically running out of time whilst the managers seem to be typically running out of any useful work to do and instead are found doing something else.
Well, that actually happens a lot, with many causes.
For example: manager is perfectionist (at some level), it takes more time to delegate than doing it yourself, there's some attitude from the subordinate to undermine the manager, there's lot of work in a specific season and manager prefer to do it himself than risking his job due to a bad work form a subordinate
In an ideal world, of course the manager would replace the subordinate. But in real life, sometimes you can't find someone in the adequate time and is better to have him doing 75% of the work instead of 0%...
But where I am, managers don't delegate work, they assign work.