This was an article on 7 April, Recruit. What caught my attention? The dinosaur looking at a desk-bound worker through a microscope!!! hahaha... It's like, look! Big brother is looking at you! So you better behave!
The message the picture just want to send across is, "Micro-managing by Management"!
In the article, micromanaging is associated to "the old way of doing things" (hm... don't quite agree! depending on what context and environment one was in!). But agree with the definition of "Dinosaur managers" who are described as ones who use micro-management approach - supervise every small step in the workflow process - hence "micro". That is, close supervision to ensure production levels are met - the management literally had to tell employees what to do and watch them to make sure they did it. This system works well when the workflow was simple. As work gets more complex, such management lost its effectiveness. So, the way the employees are treated has becoming more important - micromanagement does not drive motivation.
I like another thing mentioned - Time was viewed as what was "bought" by the company. Yes, imagine, we are paid by $N per hour - it is really very much dependent how the manager puts our time to use - if the manager focuses on nitty gitty things and gets the employees to work on useless things - then look! who's wasting the resources?
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