Responding to: "Blaming Management" LO9 LO9282

Ronald Carter (ronald_carter@Merck.Com)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:38 -0500 (EST)

Stephen Weed writes:

"Dale Emery writes: If you see management as the keeper of the system,
and you already have a bias that management is the problem, you'll go
looking for
problems in "the system."

Rol Fessenden writes: "I wonder why is there so much anger out there?"

Perhaps this is only _MY_ answer. I suspect not.

There is no single factor in my mind which creates anxiety/ rage more than
unfulfilled expectations."

Stephen,

Your suspicions are correct, at least by "one more". I too am harboring
many angry/blaming feelings toward management. I too am prompted to find
new pastures.

As I struggle to make sense of my own circumstance and "blessed" with the
consultants eye for someone else's problem, perhaps talking about yours can
help me!

I'm wondering based on your comments if perhaps we as "inside" helpers may
have "something more"(please don't any of you read that as downtrodden
victim talk OR an insider/outsider conflict) of a battle to do with these
feelings.

I think I also read in your comments that perhaps your
rating/recognition/compensation were not up to your expectations ("for which
I am not compensated") .

During the last 2+ years, I have worked in tandem with external consultants
on various projects. It's seemed to me that their external status gave them
at least two sorts of freedom regarding these feelings (if not freedom then
at least more perspective/distance).

First they are on fee rather than part of the managerial judgment system
(usually built on OLD policies, habits and behaviors) which creates our
"rewards". Second, they are contractors not employees which changes their
own expectations of the "system". I cannot help but fall prey to my own
reading of our managerial rhetoric about the culture of the workplace, the
way we will treat each other and have expectations for how I'll be treated.

-Ron Carter

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