IbnIbrahim:
Ever heard the expression for every finger you point, there's three pointing back at you? It certainly applies to management. When team morale is low, resignation letters are flying in, and people are avoiding eye contact with you in the hallways, it may be time to accept that you may be the problem.

Whoever is privileged enough to hold the title of "manager," your first priority is being fully cognizant of the most common reasons why your best people may be headed for the exits.

4 Dumb Things to Avoid Doing
I have analyzed HR data for several years to detect the causes of poor management and, even worse, poor management that leads to costly turnover. If you're in a management role, let me offer you four clear reasons for your best people possibly packing their bags.

1. Managers bully their employees


The effects of bullying in the workplace are huge and costly for businesses. In a recent study from the Workplace Bullying Institute, nearly one fifth of all American workers reported bullying in the workplace. The alarming part? 61 percent of bullies are bosses, the majority (63 percent) operating alone. So how can you tell without a doubt that you work for a boss who bullies? The bullying boss isn't the "tough boss" who offers blunt, constructive criticism aimed at helping your performance; rather, they rain down destructive criticism aimed at intimidating you and humiliating you as a human being (often in front of your peers), and attacking you on a personal level rather than criticizing your work. How disruptive is this type of boss to the workplace? Baird Brightman, a behavioral scientist and consultant reports that "aggressiveness (both verbal and physical) undermines safety and requires people to divert resources from productive work into defensive operations such as fight or flight."

2. Managers don't give positive reinforcement.

Research conducted by Zenger/Folkman involving close to 8,000 managers revealed nearly 40 percent of them conceded to never giving positive reinforcement. That's a definite problem because the same study found that a manager's willingness to give positive feedback was the strongest predictor of whether their direct reports perceive them to be effective, honest communicators. Conversely, plenty more evidence points to positive feedback linked to increasing employees' performance and a company's bottom line. One study by Dr. Marcial Losada and Dr. Emily Heaphy found that high-performing teams receive nearly six times more positive feedback than less effective teams.

3. Managers take credit for their employees' work.

The most recent example of this unfortunate truth is via an employee survey conducted by BambooHR. They asked more than 1,000 US-based employees to rate 24 "typical boss behaviors" from 'totally acceptable' to 'totally unacceptable.' BambooHR found that 63 percent of respondents said managers who hog all the credit was unacceptable, and something they would consider worth quitting over. Women felt even worse about their bosses wrongfully taking credit, with 71 percent of them calling it the worst "bad boss" behavior.

4. Managers have little to no concern for their employees' work-life balance

Although flexible work schedules and remote work is on the rise, for the most part, managers still dictate and control the amount of work and what hours their people will work. As a result, people's personal or family lives are typically sacrificed for the job; overwork is commonly evidenced by 50-hour-plus work weeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication. Consequently, there are profound health risks involved through the effects on work stress, sleep, and the conflict between work and other life roles. In one massive joint study by Harvard Business School and Stanford University, it was found that long work hours were associated hypertension and unhealthy behaviors such as smoking.

Bringing It Home

While salary is important, good employees are ultimately intrinsically motivated. Your job as manager is to connect with them relationally, provide for them what they need to succeed, and make them feel valued and respected as human beings. When you do, you'll give them plenty of reasons to want to get up in the morning and willingly and passionately contribute meaningful work with both their hearts and minds in it.

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free2ryhme:


Since you have not been a manager before then you cant post what you dont know

IbnIbrahim:


What makes you conclude that I have not been a manager before?

Nairalanders and their error of hasty conclusion!

free2ryhme:


so you concur to the jargon you posted abi

free2ryhme:


so you concur to the jargon you posted abi

IbnIbrahim:

And what beneficial alternatives do you have?

free2ryhme:


post your experience then

free2ryhme:


post your experience then

IbnIbrahim:

And of what use would that be to you?

free2ryhme:


The post is jargon, end of story

IbnIbrahim:

Perhaps you are one of those managers that has one or all of those highlighted attributes.

IbnIbrahim:

I can't help but laugh at your intellectual shallowness. You are saying a post is jargon, then prove why it is or go into hibernation.

free2ryhme:


there is nothing to prove

i have spoken so deal with it

IbnIbrahim:

Deal with what??
Lol!����

free2ryhme:


there is nothing to prove

i have spoken so deal with it

free2ryhme:


no go get HBP

IbnIbrahim:

HBP is still okay, I hope you no no go get CVA

Bruno3000:
Shut up mr man. Ppl like u are very annoyingly arrogant.

free2ryhme:


you must have been hurled a lot of insults for these outbursts

it is a pity you had a rough childhood

Bruno3000:
Just imagine! As if he knws me. Ur arrogance will land u in trouble soonest.

free2ryhme:


You need to relax so you dont use your hands to kill yourself

Bruno3000:
haha hw old are u sef? Kido abi na fool at 40?

free2ryhme:

So you trying to tell everyone your age without asking

Continue seun will give you an award

free2ryhme:


So you trying to tell everyone your age without asking


Continue seun will give you an award

Bruno3000:
obviously a fool at 40. No wonder. Oya keep shinning ur dirty teeth.

free2ryhme:

you are really trying to get across you age status

we already know
stop sweating it

Bruno3000:
mumu old man. No shame u hv. Keep it up.

free2ryhme:



you must be feeling dejected right now


2018 is just starting, take heart

Bruno3000:
Are u tellin us what ur going thru? Ehya No wonder u attckd d op with such arrognce. Pele old man.

free2ryhme:


you are the one taking phensic for another man's headache

keep up your good work maybe one day he will reward your stupidity