What is required to be a good quality manager? III

We have to keep in mind that none leadership would work for all situations, and none leadership style is simply good or bad. In a turmoil factory, workers come and go, rarely do they stay longer for 2 years, and even rarely they would stay on the same position longer for 1 year. You got no chance to convince boss to accept good payment would benefit the company in long term. This is the basic policy of the stupid Communist Party of China. Ten years as, workers were paid 1 to 2 thousands a month, ten years later, nothing changed except I become elder and grow more white hair. In such situation, although we perceive employee empowerment and full involving would help in problem solving, we have to rely on autocratic style to keep basic operations in track. In a bad case, if the factory just freshly dived into an industry field which means supplicated operation manners didn’t exist, you have to work at frontier line to set up it and regulate it.

On the other side, leadership theories will help us to understand factory culture, and perceive constraints and boundaries you will face when you carry out management task. If a boss is superficial about team working, you have to find the way to get subordinates to be involved in daily decision making, and boost the team work atmosphere. At the same time, you will find out what support you will need from top management to commit on rewards and recognition to good behaviors.

Third knowledge we would need is financial knowledge. I have seen top managers ignorant to basic financial theories, but as they are handling with them, they will impose to you barriers which they may don’t understand at all. To get out of this situation, you have to collect data to convince the benefits they will gain. To prevent non cooperation from financial manager, you should possess basic financial knowledge to get their involvement. If psychological knowledge can help us to deal with bosses’ personnel needs, then financial knowledge can help us to deal with bosses’ needs to fulfill company goals.

Besides handling bosses, financial knowledge can also help us to avoid whims of our subordinates. Fiscal method would be a tool for us to prioritize, and direct projects. And the by products would be evaluating subordinates intuition on problem solving. Are they nuts or smart to propose methods for resolution of problems?