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The major roles of middle management are 1) Communicate the vision 2) Allocate resources 3) Set criteria for decisions of unequivocal data 4) Make judgement
by SixSigma 12y ago
The major roles of middle management are
1) Communicate the vision
2) Allocate resources
3) Set criteria for decisions of unequivocal data
4) Make judgement calls on equivocal data
5) Facilitate the voice of the worker being heard
Computers can only do 2 & 3
- blumkvist 12y agoSo much this! Computers will not take over middle management. Any company that does this will suffer. Why? Because smarter companies will keep their management, which will USE the algos to assist their decision making. Will technology cut jobs? Certainly! Especially in the data processing. But right now the top comment is about a lemonade stand run by an algo... Nerd's wet dreams.
- conradfr 12y ago6) Producing Excel spreadsheets.
- SixSigma 12y agoIf your management isn't doing useful work, then it's because of poor communication from you.
- runarberg 12y agoNumber 1) could just as easily be done by the top management, and 4) by the workers. That leaves middle management only facilitating the voice of the worker, which is often time only an illusion anyway.
- CmonDev 12y agoI felt like a bit of anti-hype is needed: 1) Because engineers need translation 2) Not preventing teams from doing their work 3) A bit of arbitrage, fair 4) Flipping the coin based on the choices well-prepared by underlings 5) Politics, CEO will always only hear the board, which only cares about themselves; I bet anonymous feedback forms and a bit of cheap data mining would be a more sure bet