The management cycle is akin to the backbone of an organisation. Managers make plans, monitor the results, explain the outclime, and then make changes to the plan as appropriate. Rinse. Repeat.
Every manager participates in this cycle on some level, whether he’s a part of middle management or upper management. Each person may have a different expectation regarding the outcome of a process, depending on the level of management he is at. Lower management and middle management members may each be designing processes to complete a specific part of the overall task. Upper management may only see the overall project and what they perceive to be the final outcome.
Everyone has the same goal, though – to see hundreds or thousands of pieces of information distributed in a manner that allows employees to effectively complete their jobs. Your CEOs are relying on the trickle down effect – where middle management takes information, pulls it apart, and divides it accordingly.
What methods do you have for streamlining the dissemination of information within your organisation? Can you identify your own role in the managment cycle? Are these things covered in your management training courses?
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