There is a story about a manager/leader
who was not keen on teaching his subordinates. Whenever there is a new employee
assigned in his department he would assume that the new employee has already
been briefed about the job by the Human Resource Management Department. If the
new employee has not been sufficiently briefed by the HRMD he would assign one
of his subordinate to teach the new employee about the job in his office.
Managers/Leaders are always busy they
would attend to so many things in their office and outside of their office. For
example, a manager/leader would always do the usual management function of
Planning, Leading, Organizing and Controlling. Aside from that they would also
attend to meetings and other specials duties outside of their office.
The big question now is should a manager/leader
find time to be a teacher in his own office? The obvious answer is yes! He
should still find time no matter how busy he/she is. Why? For the simple reason
that to be a teacher is one of his salient job.
This doesn’t mean that he should devote
his entire work day teaching a newly assigned employee. Since he is very busy a 10-20 minutes
teaching session about the job and the discipline that he wants to be observed would
be enough.
The return of his precious time is
unquantifiable, it will create an impression that he is a hands-on
manager/leader. It will create an impression that he wants work to be done
properly. And it will create an impression that he doesn’t want incompetence
and other wishy-washy behavior in his office.
Therefore, you need to be a teacher if
you’re a manager/leader, supervisor or a person who holds a position of
responsibility in your organization. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
