The Micromanager Exposed - A Review

Organisations generally aim at achieving group objectives effectively and efficiently. This objective informs the kinds of managers who are put in charge of various offices or departments. For every manager to succeed, he requires details and lots of information. However there are some unnecessary details which negatively affect employees. These unnecessary details, which add up to what is referred to as Micromanagement, is felt only when managers find themselves at the receiving end or when they are being micromanaged. However there is the need for every manager to be able to perform self-assessment based on some features like the excessive need for information, stress and crisis management and how negative results are handled, among others, to be able to know when as a manager, you begin to micromanage. There is therefore the need to be able to draw the line between effective management and micromanagement and be able to pull the brakes as a manager when features of micromanagement are noticed.