Inside the Manager's Mind: Personality Traits That Shapes Workplace Behavior.

The Word Manager has made from the word manage, it means handling, and Manager means, In charge of or head.

Managers of organizations are responsible for operational and strategic activities of an organization or any specific department of an organization. The whole Management revolves around four pillars of management that are called P O L C. These are Planning, Organizing, Leading and controlling. 

Management is an art of planning, Organizing, leading and controlling. Management focuses on productivity, quality, safety and maximizing uses of company resources to get better productivity. All employees of an organization are resources for the company. So, employees are called the intellectual capital of the company.so every company hire a Manager who specially assist the company in operational and strategic role. He deals with employees’ Attendance, Salary, training, performance appraisal, hiring and many more and that role in the organization is called Human Resource Manager. HR Manager performs the role between Management and Employees. HR Managers sometimes perform employee’s advocacy role.

Managers’ primary duty is to know the team and its strengths and weaknesses. A Good Manager always focuses on becoming adept in POLC frame. Leading and encouraging the team is primarily focus of a Manager, instead of shouting, criticizing and creating blaming culture at workplace.

It has been observed that some Managers have less and more weights of POLC. It means some Managers are very good at any one of these four pillars of management. Ether they are good at planning, or good at leading. Someone is seen very poor in leading, organizing & planning but very strong on Controlling. Very few are seen in leadership roles and today organizational need for Leadership. Leadership roles are to motivate the team members, encourage them, give freedom to take initiative and over all give credit to the team members for any achievements instead of taking for self.

Manager means not that you are having a Boss Position, A Manager must perform sometimes a good leadership role, a good organizer, a good planner and very good at controlling. A good Manager always recognizes the characteristics of team members and leads the team accordingly. A Manager always wins the heart of team members not hurting & shouting them based on his/her position. A Manager always remembers times are changes and positions are temporary. 

There is one thing common in every Manager that they emphasis more on Controlling. Controlling can be of many types and can be done in many ways. Basically, it means dealing in mainly three things are Controlling People, Process and Materials. 

One day I met a Manager, he introduced himself as DLP Manager. His attitude and behavior were at stream level. He was trying to show me that he is Manager. Attitude of a Manager was clearly seen in his behavior. 

There was a Project where I was transferred recently a Manager called me and introduced me firstly with name that he is speaking construction manage and that I already know this, his introduction was to show me that he is now become construction Manager. Later I observed that his Managerial skill is very low.

A Manager’s attitude and behavior create good environment at workplace and makes workplace good. A good manage create good culture at workplace. A Manager with bad attitude and behavior never creates a good culture that makes the team member morale.

There are some Managers who have programmed their minds to shout at anyone, dealing with bad behavior and bad manners, showing that as a sign of a Manager. Such Managers use aggressive manners as tools for Managerial impression. They think of threats and shouting, and becoming hyper on small things, showing attitude to being a Manager, and made employees feel again and again that they are talking to a Manager.

A Manager’s personality should be so good that people want to listen to him willingly, learn from him, praise him in absence of him and never complain about him. These demonstrate good quality of a Manager & having good personality.

At one Project I met a Construction Manager, he had come from annual leave as he entered in the office all staff suddenly stand up and there was smile on their faces, they were very happy to see him. They requested him to take a group photograph. He distributed sweets to everyone himself. This is the sign of great Manager who cares for everyone and that bring automatically smiles on many faces.  

Finally, a Manager should not have an attitude towards a Manager but also have an attitude towards a good caretaker and leader. He knows the team strength and weaknesses; he leads the team and not only controls the team. He knows each team member’s personality treat and behaviors. He should have a leader attitude not a Boss.

Disclaimer

This article is based on Author personal perception and indeed no intention to write about managers that make them feel bad. This is personal view of author about this article.