After a long, tiring running around chasing for prospects, attending to suppliers and driving long tiring distance, the last thing I wanted to see in my phone text messaging are comments from boss saying you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that, etc. He is beginning to get on my nerves. It’s been only one year, and the true colours of my boss are starting to show. With nobody to keep him in check would he be the next emperor in my little branch office?<\/p>\n
Granted he isn’t as terrorizing as my previous boss, but as a person in authority, he can still wreck havoc in my work life. Are all Japanese bosses like this? It does seem so. Even the visiting Japanese big kahuna who accompanied the supplier also made comment that we as a branch company should do this, should not do that, etc. oh c’mon! Are they clones or what? No personality at all!<\/p>\n
Each of us are individual with our own strength and weakness. We are not the same and certainly not created equal. Some are bold and go getters, some are humble and with a servitude attitude. In fact, our approach to clients are not the same. Managers that tries to mould each sales person to be an exact clone are poor managers. What works for him does not work for another. All they create are discord that only lead to demotivation. A down and out staff with low morale cannot work because he will be very dissatisfied and will have no energy to even get up in the morning to go to work, let alone do anything of value to the company. Reminds me of the Hertzberg Hygiene-Motivator model. A bad boss is a dirty boss, which means the hygiene factor is not clean leading to poor morale in the work staff. Forget about motivations, it won’t work because the work place is not clean.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately Peter Drucker point about manager being promoted to its position of incompetence holds true. The person may be good at doing sales and coordinating sales, but is totally a buffoon when he comes to managing staff and staff morale.<\/p>\n