Sympathy for the devil: should we feel sorry for middle managers?

Analysis: middle managers occupy a difficult place in organisations with a job that pulls them in so many different directions at once

We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences For a start, employees rarely want to be managed and they are often convinced that management does little other than get in the way. Some companies have gone as far as getting rid of middle management altogether, and experiment that does not always produce positive results.

Middle management is often a sink-or-swim job. They are often chosen because the performed very well in their previous jobs, not necessarily because they have the skills needed to succeed in management, and they can find the transition to management stressful. All in all, the job of middle manager can be a miserable one. Why, then, do people compete to become middle managers? Usually, they fight for middle management slots because they believe that successful performance as a middle manager can lead to promotion into the ranks of upper management, where the constraints and split roles that define a middle management job are less likely to be present.

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