27th July, 2010

Micromanagement circle of influence

Posted by Navin Harish - 5 Comments

Your activities depend on how you are managed

Micromanagement affects the decision making ability of a person. In the above image, there are decisions that fall into different categoreis starting for the very basic and personal decision about yourself and expand to the level where you are making decisions which helps your company move towards its goal and you in advancing your career.

To be able to make the decisions positioned in the outer most circle and even beyond that, an employee needs to be empowered and this is what most people aspire for. The more a person is micromanaged, the smaller the circle gets till it is reduced to a point where he is reduced to a worker on an assembly line.

Where do you see yourself in this circle?

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Sanjay Gupta

July 27th, 2010 at 2:35 pm    


I have been through a situation where I was reduced to the inner most circle. It was suffocating. I still carried on thinking that my boss knows the whole thing (as he was the one micromanaging me) that I should be okay. However during my annual appraisal the boss told me that I am not showing enough initiative and have become complacent.

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Vinay Taneja

July 27th, 2010 at 3:29 pm    


So what you are trying to say is that employees, even freshsers, should be allowed to do what they want. If this is so, why are managers needed at all? I feel the level of decision a person can make depends directly on his position in the organisation.

Charu Kapoor

July 27th, 2010 at 4:24 pm    


Hi Navin,

Did you prepare that process diagram? You have come a long way, if that is the case. I just remembe u as a jovial person ready to put a smile on someone’s face. I still miss laughing with you as a friend. :-)

BTW, sorry no offence though, but the above diagram is looking like some Dilbert cartoon. :P

Navin Harish

July 28th, 2010 at 11:50 am    


@Charu Kapoor
Charu I believe Scott Adams is creating the most relevant literature of our times about our work lives. Something that is worthy of putting in a time capsule to be preserved for future generations

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