When I first joined the workforce, I naively believed that workers supported their bosses and that bosses were generally deserving of respect, since they had been promoted by the sages who went before them. These were the days before Dilbert alerted the pre-career young about the messy realities of the workforce.
Brian Fellows had seen it all before. When media conglomerate Thomson acquired NewsEdge five years ago it was the second time NewsEdge had been swallowed up by a larger competitor. The anxiety that swept through NewsEdge’s 20-person IT department was palpable. But Fellows, then the distributor of electronic news and the security manager, kept his head.
SO how possible is it really to give an honest appraisal of your boss in an “upward appraisal” — where you give your boss feedback? Or if you’re the boss, how do you feel about having a subordinate potentially influence your review?
People in business are being buried in internal and external communications that come by email, voicemail, messages and memos.
This whitepaper looks at the 7 factors managers and team leaders should know to motivate their team, increasing overall productivity and providing incentives to keep staff focused on achieving business goals.