When Managers are Insecure, Employee Voices Aren’t Heard: Ethan Burris

Your head may be full of business improvement ideas, but there’s a chance your manager doesn’t want to hear them. That’s a problem for your organization, says Ethan Burris, associate professor of management at the McCombs School of Business.
Successful companies seek out ideas from all employees and then put good ideas into practice, Burris noted in his lunchtime talk at the Texas Enterprise Speaker Series on March 31. “If we’re going to increase performance overall, it’s dependent on employees having candid conversations about what works and what doesn’t, and then having their managers take action,” he said.
So why wouldn’t a manager want to hear from employees? Burris pointed to two related theories: role theory and self-discrepancy theory. Learn more.
The Texas Enterprise Speaker Series offers lunchtime lectures on business-related topics from faculty representing a variety of disciplines at The University of Texas at Austin. www.texasenterprise.utexas.edu...

[@layahit]

I lost two career opportunities in a row from two different establishments. That shit was so demoralizing, frustrating, and discouraging. I got tired of sounding crazy so I gave up on humans

[@benkohout6495]

Saved the company i worked for 100’s if not thousands by catching a pricing error and bringing attention to it. The ceo reacted like a 5 year old brat towards the rest of the organization. Never said thanks or showed appreciation (probably insecure) and i got fired for insubordination 2 weeks later after voicing my other concerns with efficiency. All the employees i worked with didn’t agree with the out of touch decision made by management who doesn’t actually work hands on with product or customers.

[@Amon2012able]

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