Management Playlist - Managers Protecting The Slackers At Work

Managers Protecting The Slackers At Work Quote- Most slackers are protected by the top slackers, their Manager. 🎶Music by Dmitrii Spis from Pixabay 💎Best Operations Management Courses (FREE) https://tinyurl.com/4cwreyyw 💯ALISON FREE ONLINE COURSES, HOW IT WORKS💯 Alison works by offering free, self-paced, online courses created by experts, funded by ads and optional paid certificates, allowing users to learn skills in modules, pass assessments (needing 80%+), and download a free Learner Record or pay for official certificates/diplomas to prove their achievement, all accessible via web or app. You have been at your new job for 3 months now and you are starting to notice the inconsistency in some of your fellow co workers. Management deploy daily task and for some reason or another, these task that were giving is taking up to 3 days to complete which would normally take a day or two. Management comes around and ask another co worker to finish up or stop completely of what they are doing and go over to assist. You also know this is a constant routine for some of the employees, these are simple task to these employees that been at this job for 5 plus years, but strangely enough it takes forever to complete task. You notice one of the employee finally had enough and mention this to Management, she comes back out of the office and i said, what did management say? She replied, management mentioned we all need to help out and don't make it a big deal. This is a ritual at many workplaces on many levels, Warehousing, Financing, Service, Installation, Admin. So why are Managers protecting the slackers at work? Someone has mentioned "Most slackers are protected by the top slackers, their Manager" This statement expresses a common workplace sentiment regarding management, often referred to as "protecting their own" or shielding poor performers. Yes, there are 2 side to this coin when it comes to top performing Management when it comes to it being a delegation strategy, Sometimes, a management relies on a "slacker" for specific, low-effort tasks or administrative work, allowing the manager or top performers to focus on high-impact projects. But this thought process is rare these days. Management that is a slacker as well partner up well with these types of employees for quite a few reasons I will go over. The "Reliable" Factor, a low-performing employee may still be consistently present, predictable, or loyal, which some managers will prefer over a high-performer who is difficult to manage or challenges authority. Avoiding Hiring Hassle, we all know replacing an employee is time-consuming and disruptive, especially if you do not have an onboarding process. A manager might keep a underperformer simply to avoid the effort of hiring and training someone new. Lack of Managerial Courage, when dealing with poor performance requires difficult conversations and HR documentation. Some managers avoid this type of conflict. This one right here is one of the more popular ones, Shifting Blame, sometimes, the "slacker" is actually a scapegoat for the manager's own poor performance or lack of direction. Lets not forgot Management also get questioned, reprimanded from the higher ups when things are not going as planned and they need to know why, so you guessed it, the slackers is going to be the blame. All the while with this going on your top performers are seeing this which will lead to quite of few disruptions. A big Morale Killer, when high performers see low performers constantly being protected, they often become demoralized, frustrated, and may end up leaving, leading to a "brain drain" for the company. A reduced productivity, the overall team output decreases, and the high performers often end up doing double work to make up for the slacker. The last one here does take a lot of years at certain work places when it comes to reputational damage, managers who protect poor performance eventually lose credibility with their own leadership and peers. There will come a time when upper Management is going to say why is there so much disruption, loss of productivity, and overall poor performance coming from this department and will investigate. Keep that in mind.