Management is the key to success for a company. Today managers, good managers know how to lead a team, how to make them work well for the company but also know how to congratulate them and above all how to stimulate them. They know how to stimulate each member of the team showing him or her that his or her part of work is important for the company.
But French managers are still working like if they were a few centuries ago when a manager was a little king of his or her company. First of all, they don't know how to really smile when they get in the company. On the contrary they always frown and when they try to smile it is obvious that it is a false and a strained smile. It is very rare to hear a French manager greet the team.
So that is just to start. As for leading the team it is like if we were in the Middle Ages in front of the master of a castle who had all rights toward his people because they used to be his property.
Some people might think that I exaggerate but unfortunately not. I live this everyday in the company where I work. But the worst of all is that those so called managers are absolutely incompetent and have no sense of what a real leader should do in a company. They still act as if the company was theirs and the staff their slaves. At each meeting, we hear absurdities from people who are sure that their word is the absolute truth. One can say that it is typically French as these people are arrogant and think that they are superior to the rest of the world.
All around me, I have people who have worked in other countries, like the USA, the UK and even Brazil, who have the same comments about French managers. In fact it is the exact replica of what happens at all political levels in France. Once a French man or woman is elected at a political position, he and she forgets what democracy means and only thinks of him and her. We can see it at the highest level of political life where even former presidents, former ministers, members of parliament and senators are sure that first they acted perfectly well when they were holding a position and second that they need recognition and money and privileges given to them by the state. To cut a long story short by taxpayers money.
Last but not least thing: promotions and responsibilities. A good manager cannot keep a good team without promoting and giving them higher responsibilities after a while in the company. But only on merit. In France promotions and responsibilities are given to members of the staff who are friends and members of the manager's families. Not to mention that people from Arab and African descents don't get high position in companies because French people are still racist towards these two "races".
But the worst, is that this situation will not change soon.
But French managers are still working like if they were a few centuries ago when a manager was a little king of his or her company. First of all, they don't know how to really smile when they get in the company. On the contrary they always frown and when they try to smile it is obvious that it is a false and a strained smile. It is very rare to hear a French manager greet the team.
So that is just to start. As for leading the team it is like if we were in the Middle Ages in front of the master of a castle who had all rights toward his people because they used to be his property.
Some people might think that I exaggerate but unfortunately not. I live this everyday in the company where I work. But the worst of all is that those so called managers are absolutely incompetent and have no sense of what a real leader should do in a company. They still act as if the company was theirs and the staff their slaves. At each meeting, we hear absurdities from people who are sure that their word is the absolute truth. One can say that it is typically French as these people are arrogant and think that they are superior to the rest of the world.
All around me, I have people who have worked in other countries, like the USA, the UK and even Brazil, who have the same comments about French managers. In fact it is the exact replica of what happens at all political levels in France. Once a French man or woman is elected at a political position, he and she forgets what democracy means and only thinks of him and her. We can see it at the highest level of political life where even former presidents, former ministers, members of parliament and senators are sure that first they acted perfectly well when they were holding a position and second that they need recognition and money and privileges given to them by the state. To cut a long story short by taxpayers money.
Last but not least thing: promotions and responsibilities. A good manager cannot keep a good team without promoting and giving them higher responsibilities after a while in the company. But only on merit. In France promotions and responsibilities are given to members of the staff who are friends and members of the manager's families. Not to mention that people from Arab and African descents don't get high position in companies because French people are still racist towards these two "races".
But the worst, is that this situation will not change soon.
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