Micromanagement (Business Administration)

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Micromanagement in the (also micromanagement) describes social and economic sciences the process of the planned action in the microenvironment. There is an “exaggerated focus on detail”. Another characteristic of micromanagement is the skipping of hierarchy levels. There is no need to delegate tasks. The management style of the former Apple boss Steve Jobs is called micromanagement, because he often took care of details that were not part of his area of ​​responsibility.

In the retail sector in particular, the management of the microenvironment is an established term (“retail is detail”). The department store pioneer Sam Walton already coined the phrase: “Think in small ways!”.

Micromanager

Development to a micromanager

A micromanager is a manager who is very concerned with the details of a problem to be solved by his employees or colleagues. A manager becomes a micromanager (also micromanager) when he receives too little feedback about the solution to the problem (or only has the feeling). This leads to constant queries and to more and more detailed tasks in the work packages, but also in the reports to be drawn up on work results.

On the other hand, employees are held back from their actual work because they have to constantly report on the status of their work. There is no freedom for decisions within their area of ​​responsibility.

The permanent state of such a leadership style can demotivate employees, who can then develop into destructive employees.

remedy

This can be remedied by open discussions to improve the division of labor. A leader must be able to delegate tasks . The employee must report sufficiently to his superior. Both have to accept and trust each other . That has to be worked out first.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Oberhofer: Active leadership - managing employees correctly. (No longer available online.) November 11, 2009, archived from the original on April 23, 2012 ; Retrieved November 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.business-wissen.de
  2. ↑ The core competence of getting bogged down. July 8, 2006, accessed November 9, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Julia Kleine: leadership errors. FOCUS magazine. October 2006
  4. ↑ Portny, Stanley E .: Project Management for Dummies, May 2007: ISBN 978-3-527-70345-6