Class, based on what we know from the Griffin text, is everyone considered a manager?

Why, or why not?

We have to respond to our fellow class mates and this is the person that I responded to:

A manager should organize their week. He or she has to make sure the company has the resources to do the job. Look at the finances to ensure the company is in the black. The need to met with the supervisors incase they need direction with the employees and check on sale to find improvements. Managers do not need to delegate but over see every employee. Let themselves be known and involved.

Jason,

In reading your response I noticed that you stated that a manager does not need to delegate work to their employees but rather over see what their employees are doing. I have to disagree, I think that the best manager is able to delegate their tasks to their subordinates in order to free up more time to be hands on. A friend of mine who currently oversees 150-200 employees (it fluctuates due to high turn over) once told me that the best manager is a lazy manager. A lazy manager who knows how to distribute work so that he has time to meet up with his employees and coach them to be the best that they can be. After working as his assistant for two years I can safely say that he is one of the best managers that I had. He really did help mold me as a manager. When you don't delegate sometimes your employees feel that you don't trust them enough to do the work that you should be assigning. It can create an atmosphere of distrust which can really be counter productive.

I have stepped in to mange for a company with 10 times the employees and I don't let them do my job. You have to delegate some work, however one does not need to look over shoulders either. If I was a lazy manager, then there was no point of me doing that job. You have to show others that you can work and you are there to help them. My point is I have seen where managers delegate their responsibility to get out of work. You need to be a team.

I absolutely agree with you about a manager and his employees working cohesively in order to be a team. My contention was with this statement, "managers do not need to delegate but over see every employee", I would rather delegate tasks to my employees in order to be more hands on manager.

My current staff exceeds more than 1500 but I delegate and make time to visit and evaluate each one. It's not about being "lazy" in that you don't work but you have to take your hands off of everything and distribute the work so that your team can feel empowered and trust you as their manager/leader.

I was just offering another perspective from a former colleague. It really does appear that we are on the same page.

I don't understand why people get there d*mn panties in a bunch if someone doesn't agree with them... he complained that I was too aggressive. Am I being too aggressive? FI doesn't think so, I thought I'd ask you ladies