Question

In my old job, I realized I couldn't identify with my superior's leadership style. He has not responded to the needs and wishes of employees and has not provided any motivating incentives. I ask myself whether an employee can have an influence on the mental model of the superior? Is it possible to change the behavior fixed in the head? And can employees influence the management style at all without endangering their job? Any thought on this?

Answer 1

I believe that organizations should considered employees as important stakeholder of the organization because in real the employees are important which the organization's management needs to understand for the betterment of the organization. I believe that employees need to be very much clear in their approach and they need to make an impact on the manager or supervisors way of thinking. I believe that the process if difficult and it depends on the attitude of the superiors because they may not entertain a junior employee with anything and what they think or do is difficult to change to quite an extent. If the superior values employees and their ideas and thoughts then it may be possible to change what they think.

Influencing the management style is possible if the manager has a participative approach in which the manager may invite suggestions from the employees for the betterment of the organization. I believe that managers should follow this approach because in such an approach the team members actually get involved in the process of decision making and they help the manager in making their decisions as well. Managers with authoritarian style may have issues accepting such approach and may develop a negative image of the individual.