We are a growing company of 30+ employees, currently our managers, four of them, sit down every Friday morning for a "production meeting". Which I am told consists of making sure they are on track to meet deadlines..... and that is it.
That is the extent of collaboration in our company. The other 4.95 days everyone, managers and their subordinates exist in their bubble, undisturbed unless a customer isn't happy. The problem is the managers fill their time doing tasks that should be delegated out, anything from finding a piece of drop so a machinist has material, to sitting down with a CAD operator to make sure their drawing isn't missing dimensions. All this is taking away from their actual managerial duties, that workers are not responsible for nor have the power to execute.
I am not considered a manager, but I oversee all of our CAD work (not CAD workers), so I'm responsible for their work but not their daily activities, so I couldn't reprimand someone for playing on their phone all day despite constantly witnessing it. Is there a way for me to explain to some manager's that their daily activities are causing them to be out of touch with problems that are existing, that only they can solve if they stopped filling their day with tasks they should be delegating out?
I apologize for the essay, as this is a drop in the bucket compared to what runs in my head after 5 years here.
That is the extent of collaboration in our company. The other 4.95 days everyone, managers and their subordinates exist in their bubble, undisturbed unless a customer isn't happy. The problem is the managers fill their time doing tasks that should be delegated out, anything from finding a piece of drop so a machinist has material, to sitting down with a CAD operator to make sure their drawing isn't missing dimensions. All this is taking away from their actual managerial duties, that workers are not responsible for nor have the power to execute.
I am not considered a manager, but I oversee all of our CAD work (not CAD workers), so I'm responsible for their work but not their daily activities, so I couldn't reprimand someone for playing on their phone all day despite constantly witnessing it. Is there a way for me to explain to some manager's that their daily activities are causing them to be out of touch with problems that are existing, that only they can solve if they stopped filling their day with tasks they should be delegating out?
I apologize for the essay, as this is a drop in the bucket compared to what runs in my head after 5 years here.