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This document discusses how bosses bringing personal issues to work can negatively impact employees. It specifically calls out bosses who make employees stay late at work just because the boss is not ready to leave. This demotivates employees and disrupts work-life balance, causing fatigue. It also breeds unhealthy favoritism as loyal employees try to gain favor by complaining about others. The document advises employees to understand their rights by reviewing policies and have a respectful discussion with their boss about setting boundaries. It encourages bosses to learn leadership and management skills to get the best from employees without overburdening their personal lives.
This document discusses how bosses bringing personal issues to work can negatively impact employees. It specifically calls out bosses who make employees stay late at work just because the boss is not ready to leave. This demotivates employees and disrupts work-life balance, causing fatigue. It also breeds unhealthy favoritism as loyal employees try to gain favor by complaining about others. The document advises employees to understand their rights by reviewing policies and have a respectful discussion with their boss about setting boundaries. It encourages bosses to learn leadership and management skills to get the best from employees without overburdening their personal lives.
This document discusses how bosses bringing personal issues to work can negatively impact employees. It specifically calls out bosses who make employees stay late at work just because the boss is not ready to leave. This demotivates employees and disrupts work-life balance, causing fatigue. It also breeds unhealthy favoritism as loyal employees try to gain favor by complaining about others. The document advises employees to understand their rights by reviewing policies and have a respectful discussion with their boss about setting boundaries. It encourages bosses to learn leadership and management skills to get the best from employees without overburdening their personal lives.
Taking my thoughts from my being a manager at many instances, and
being under others, I have found this thing that has made very negative impression on people working with slightly insensitive bosses. This thing is about bosses bringing their personal lives (especially the challenges) into the office. I will try to deal with one at a time and the negative effect on employee. Thing 1 Im bored at home, so yall have to stay at work till Im ready to go: This phenomenon is common place at work especially among people who by nature are given to honouring superiors like they would any other older person, even if the boss in question is younger in age. It is almost a violation of the right of an employee who has been given a clear job descriptions and a letter or contract of employment stating resumption and closing times to make them stay extra time at work. Such delays are usually not because there is something very important to be done that could not have been done if the boss is one who understands Time Management and the place of planning and delegation. The worst hit among such employees are the very loyal ones (I would have preferred to call them loyal to a fault) who dont know how to draw the line between professionalism and sentiments. The Effect on the Employee 1. Demotivation: Such employees are demoralised and feel used rather than appreciated. 2. Wrong Motivation: The essence of working is to get better and be rewarded for it, not merely please your boss for the sake of getting his/her praise (trust me, its very time bound and unreliable). 3. Unhealthy Work and Family Life: Staying extra-time disrupts the balance that has a huge effect on the psyche of the employee. 4. Fatigue: There is time for everything, and if work time clashes with rest time, it is just a matter of time, the employee is bound to crash. 5. Unhealthy Comments and Complains: this is the hallmark of the discussion among such employees and the direct effect of this is also; 6. Unhealthy Favouritism: some loyalist (sycophants) will go and tell their boss about what others have said, in order to buy his/her favour, at the detriment of others. Funny enough, more than one of the employees may be doing this per time. 7. No Self-improvement, Creativity, Innovation and Dynamism: all these virtues are absent in an overcrowded mind.
8. Wrong Legacy: most employee become what they dislike about
their bosses; it is a basic fact of influence. The unhealthy circle continues. What to Do as an Employee Be ready to face the fact and live your life: 1. Take time to study all the company or organizations employee manual, your employment letter and or contract document. 2. Schedule a meeting with your direct report or boss and talk with him or her with respect to the effect of this Thing on you (personal and work life). Make sure you are very polite and on-point (yes, talk from what you have learnt as your right from the manuals and documents). 3. Respectfully proffer solution to your current working schedule and show willingness to do more if necessary to avoid the thing. If your boss shows willingness to change: 4. Be very grateful and appreciate the kind gesture, and work harder than before. 5. Disengage from unproductive activity and be the standard among your colleague; work-the-talk. (Safe this for my take on performance management). Okay Boss Okay Boss! There is more to productivity than using your position to tell people to do things for you. It may be that you are replicating what was done to you. Try to take a step away from your former boss or bosses, you can get the best from people without necessarily taking their life (time is life). Extra time spent at work should be paid for. Take time to learn from people who are doing better; you might need to spend time learning the following skills, it will make you the desirable boss: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Leadership Performance Management Delegation and Supervision and Leadership (theory and practice).
This is a sketch of my thought, I hope to make it better soon, and if
possible, with contributions from you, we can make a journal for bosses (managers, supervisors and leaders) in the African context. Thanks. Ayodele-Josh I.O