There are a million different things that managers can say to enhance their employees future performance. However, there are also bad ways to try and accomplish the same thing. Ten Things Only Bad Managers Say is an article from businessweek.com written by Liz Ryan about things managers say which have a terrible effect on employee's performance. These ten phrases are great examples of what not to say, or how to be a bad manager.
This article went right along with the first reflection paper assignment given to the MQM 221 Organizational Behavior class by Dr. Sheep. The assignment was to interview the best Organizational Behavior Manager that you knew, and there is no way that any of the interview for the papers of the class had any of these sayings in them. Frankly, it is kind of difficult to believe that people still say these types of things with all the information out there telling the world not to say those things. If it is so well known and seemingly understood of at least what not to do, why do managers everywhere still say these terrible things? Is it an emotional thing? What would make them want to say these things in the first place? Why would these phrases ever be considered to be helpful in the future of an organization?
Richard Hearden
This is a great article because managers everywhere are guilty of saying all of these. My thoughts are managers say these things to try and get under their employee's skin as a way to get them to do what they want. I agree with "only bad managers" say these things, but only to an extent. I am sure that there are employees out there getting on Facebook during the work days and managers will get frustrated and feel obligated to say something. With this being said, there are better ways to go about it than listed in this article. Overall, good article and very interesting.
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I really do think that these are statements that managers say everyday. Whether these managers are under pressure themselves or are just having a bad day, I don't think these sayings will ever be abolished out of a managers vocabulary. I myself have been subject to the sentence "Drop everything and DO THIS NOW" at my old job with Home Depot. In any pressure situation, managers are going to say anything they think is necessary to get something done on time. They don't care if its bad to say or not.
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