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Micromanagement<\/strong><\/span> is the tendency to exert unnecessary degrees of control over another person’s daily tasks, work load, or time.<\/p>\n Micromanagement is commonly used to refer to excessively controlling managers. A boss might, for example, refuse to allow an employee any independence or autonomy, require excessive progress reports, or attempt to exert control over an employee’s communications or time management. However, micromanagement can occur in any situation in which a person has a degree of control over another person’s behavior or tasks.<\/p>\n Examples of micromanagement include:<\/p>\n People who micromanage others tend to be highly controlling<\/a>. These controlling tendencies are often the product of insecurity. However, they can also be a result of false beliefs about effective management techniques or modeling. For example, a supervisor might micromanage his or her employees because he or she believes this is the best way to ensure work gets done or because his or her supervisor also micromanages.<\/p>\n Micromanagement is generally an ineffective management style. In some cases, people may need micromanagement when they have shown they cannot handle their own problems. A child who is failing a class might need intensive parental intervention, but when this intervention goes on too long, it can destroy autonomy. People who are micromanaged may experience low self-esteem<\/a>, difficulty managing their own time without oversight, or difficulty completing tasks. Because micromanagement often requires more accountability and more communication than is necessary to complete a task, it can also make work move more slowly.<\/p>\n References:<\/strong><\/p>\n Micromanagement is the tendency to exert unnecessary degrees of control over another person’s daily tasks, work load, or time. What Does It Mean to Micromanage? Micromanagement is commonly used to refer to excessively controlling managers. A boss might, for example, refuse to allow an employee any independence or autonomy, require excessive progress reports, or attempt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"psychpedia.php","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What Does It Mean to Micromanage?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Why Do People Micromanage?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
What Are the Effects of Micromanagement?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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