What is not management?
One of the methods of defining and recognizing the boundaries of each concept in social sciences is the reasoning of Barhan Khalaf.
This article intends to determine the limits and weaknesses of management by using this method.
In this way, the propositions that are usually mistakenly referred to as management are explained. Propositions that are sometimes contrary to management and are similar to management pantomime than management!
1- Management is not focused on the exact implementation of laws and regulations; Focus on achieving goals. Laws and regulations are necessary means to achieve goals, not the goal itself.
2- Management is not just giving orders!! Sometimes flattering the employee, appeasing the client, listening and acting on the instructions of the lowest level stakeholders of the organization.
3- Management is not just moving employees in organizational positions!! Empowering employees and planning for their growth and promotion.
4- Management is not working with machines and soulless creatures, management is working with humans.
5- Management is not to achieve organizational goals through employees, it is to achieve the goals of employees by using both the efforts of employees and organizational goals.
6- Management is not humiliation of subordinates!! Looking for an excuse to confirm the employee and increase his motivation through the effect of superego success.
7- Management is not the constant increase and decrease of material rewards! The effort to create financial security for human resources is to increase organizational commitment.
8- Management is not just material rewards; Honoring and promoting the employee among the family and society is through material and non-material rewards.
9- Management is not entering into the details of employees’ performance; Management is strategic thinking and compiling the goals and output of each job so that the human resources can plan for the realization of those goals in their field.
10- Management is not a permanent presence in the boardroom with the slogan of maintaining prestige; There is occasional presence among employees and clients and sometimes talking with them.
11- Management is not a reaction to any type of error and even intentional and unintentional abuse of employees; Negligence is a positive exercise and not seeing mistakes to protect privacy and self-control of employees.
12- Management is not the distribution of the highest reward among the controversial forces of the organization; Prioritizing giving bonuses to the weakest employees.
13- Management is not praise and praise of the superior authorities and humiliation of the weak forces of the organization; Management is the maximum respect and honor of the weakest forces of the organization and the right of self-respect towards the superior forces.
14- Management, the use of news media as a tool to compensate for personality deficiencies and include all the news of the organization is not on the manager!! Media tools and information sites are tools for promoting the organization’s brand.
15- Management is not just organizational calm and the absence of organizational controversy, it is a forward movement.
16- Management is not a reaction to the environment; It is forcing the environment to react to the actions of the organization.
Last word: Management is not achieved by observing the behavior of other non-managers and trying to imitate their movements. Management is a combination of science, experience and personality traits.
The above mistakes regarding management originate from the lack of knowledge, lack of experience, and more importantly, the manager’s attitudinal error in the form of the two axes of being the owner of the organization and being too understanding towards others, which should lead to the coordinator of the organization to move towards the organizational mission. be corrected
This post is written by shadmanamini