Are you employed in the corporate world, and get promoted to a higher position? Then you are supposed to gradually disengage from personal relations to your former peers, now your subordinates.
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
If you are a married man, then it may be OK to let her take more time in this transition process - remember that she isn't as familiar with the office codes as you are.
Break away gradually, but eventually reduce all contacts to office hours. Recognize the simple fact of office life that the higher you go, the fewer friends you'll have in the company.
Of course, you may have known that an office caste system exists in American businesses, but did you realize the full force of this hidden management tool?
So, is this brutal system useful? Well, it is supposed to be. For instance, in one place there was a manager who had two subordinate employees, who were sloppy and doing a bad job. They were also good friends of the manager.
These hapless employees caused the company to lose business worth $40,000. When their manager was told to get rid of them, he didn't take action. As a result, both he and the two clerks were fired. This manager failed to understand the demands of his position. - 15478
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
If you are a married man, then it may be OK to let her take more time in this transition process - remember that she isn't as familiar with the office codes as you are.
Break away gradually, but eventually reduce all contacts to office hours. Recognize the simple fact of office life that the higher you go, the fewer friends you'll have in the company.
Of course, you may have known that an office caste system exists in American businesses, but did you realize the full force of this hidden management tool?
So, is this brutal system useful? Well, it is supposed to be. For instance, in one place there was a manager who had two subordinate employees, who were sloppy and doing a bad job. They were also good friends of the manager.
These hapless employees caused the company to lose business worth $40,000. When their manager was told to get rid of them, he didn't take action. As a result, both he and the two clerks were fired. This manager failed to understand the demands of his position. - 15478
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