Question

Regular functional managers are moving from their classical authoritarian style to a facilitative participatory style because it is more effective. Do you think it took managers years to learn that, or is somthing else driving the change.

Answer 1

Answer 1
Yes, I believe that it took managers years to learn that moving from an classical authoritarian style to a facilitative participatory style is more effective and it is something which is important and driving the change because today the world has changed a lot as compared to before. Earlier managers have to to adopt a authoritarian approach in which they have to be responsible for guiding the team members on how to do the relevant work and regularly check their work in order to to check its feasibility, but today due to the changes in the information technology there is a lot of information available on the internet,so most of the people today are well equipped with technical skills because there are many ways by which they can learn the skills by themselves using different platforms this has forced the managers to change their approach and adopt a facilitative and participatory approach in which they have to simply facilitate the work and motivate the employees to regularly carry on their work rather than guiding them on the basics which was there earlier approach. The approach has totally shifted from authoritarian to facilitative which means people are already aware of what their responsibility is and how to do the work the only thing the manager is to manage is to do is motivate them enough so that they can timely complete the work. This is the reason why today most of the companies are looking for people who are having good people skills. Employees with good people skills and social genius perform much better as compared to those people who has only technical skills.

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