Benefits of managers spending their time with their employees
“Employees leave bad managers not bad organisations”
Whether you agree or not I was introduced to the work of Professor Kim Cameron from the Department of Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan and wanted to share it with you.
Prof Cameron has devised something called the Personal Management Interview Programme. She believes that employee engagement is improved when managers spent regular, one-to-one time with their direct reports. I particularly liked David A Latif’s paper on using PMI .
The bottom line is that all too often the only interaction any employee have with management is when something has gone wrong. The idea that building up a relationship with your boss based on what is happening on a day to day basis – positive as well as negative – might have a positive impact on employee relations, engagement and retention surely is common sense?
And if it is – why is it not the norm?
I would love to hear if your organisation has PMIs or something similar.
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