individual behavior

I would like my boss to understand “Fundamental attribution error (Tendency to blame someone else when things go wrong”). As a manager he/she must have motivation to lead other team members, but also be able to handle the pressure in order to make the project complete. Fundamental attribution error occurs when the manager thinks that the project process doesn’t go through well because there is a member who has no experience and doesn’t perform well. Even though this person is new to the company and doesn’t have much experience, the boss should understand the situation. People tend to be stressed out when they are in a negative situation. Managers should not blame their team members, but should give feedback to help them to improve their performance. When managers can think about how they would feel in that same situation happens to them, they might be able to perform better for their members.

leadership

Ed Whitacre became a CEO of General Motors in 2009. He was a former executive of AT&T. When he became a CEO of GM, he had no experiences related to the auto industry. However, the company wanted him to join the GM board because the company thought his experience from a fast changing industry, which is AT&T could bring him fresh knowledge and a new perspective to implement successful changes in GM. Usually we think that a CEO should have more experiences and knowledge about the industry in order to perform well.  However, it is not necessary because when a company choses new CEO from a different type of organization, he or she is expected to make huge change of a company with new ideas in order to perform better with new strategy. Where a CEO of a company preforms poorly, the new CEO can change previous performance easily without following the plans of the previous CEO.  Having CEOs from different organizations brings companies a new outlook. According to MIT Sloan Management Review, outsider CEOs- who are less tied up with internal political relationships face fewer obstacles in pursing the entrepreneurial decision making needed for growth and for implementing crucial strategic changes in a timely manner. This indicates that even though they do not have much experience of organizations, they can propose efficient and wider vision of strategy because they have plans and goals to make huge changes in companies. In addition, if a company makes a new executive group, these executives do not have negative previous experiences and strategies, thus they are able to start with clear mind and come up with new ideas.

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-summer/53408/when-is-an-outsider-ceo-a-good-choice/

HRM

When I was working in this small company, I always encountered difficult situations at work. Since I knew the president of the company before entering the company, he offered me a job and I accepted the offer. So I did not have an interview. He put me in the small office with an older woman who was my manager. There were always only two of us in the office most of the time. People thought I was lucky because I got the job easily. The other people had to have an interview to enter the company, the president never treated me as any different after starting working. I was glad he treated all company members equally, but the manager did not like the fact that I entered the company because I knew the president for a long time. I was responsible, learned things very quickly, and did the tasks efficiently. However, she always judged me and complained I did not work hard. When I had family emergency or got sick, and was not able to go to work, she was very angry and thought I lied to her. I figured it out later but she reported her complaints to the president all the time. I felt very uncomfortable being in the same office with her and got very nervous to talk to her as well. Then, another company member realized something was going on between her and I, she helped me to work at a different office where I had to learn completely different tasks from my previous work. In fact, I did not have many things to do at the new office. I got bored and quit this job shortly after.

I think this could have been avoided if….

·      I had an interview, and talked with the manager before I started working with her, she may have known my personality or integrity more, and could have improved performance.

·      the company had solid management plans to train employees. Since it was a new and very small company, the company did not have many experiences and did not know how to develop the quality workforces.

·      we both could have communicated better and got along with eachother because there were only two of us worked together for one specific task. There was a lack of socialization between my manager and I.