I believe title already sounds pretty weird but I would still like to provoke this idea. Have you ever become friends with your manager? Does it really work out or you feel that it can never happen. A manager will always remain a manager and even if he was one of your very close friends, after becoming your manager would totally change. The way he communicates with you would change significantly and the types of jokes he used to like being a friend would become very annoying to him now.
All this story said is to provide the fact that its practically possible to have a friendly manager but not to have a managerially friend. Because the role two are playing does not go with the friendship role. In friendship both the parties are at a negotiable position but as a manager subordinate its not like that. So after one getting the promotion leave other friends. Sad but true.
Virtual Teamwork
15 years ago
1 comment:
This has happenned to me two or three times over the course of eight years with the company, and 8 managers. It is really difficult to maintain functioning work roles when associates and mangers are friends, or become friendly. Not to say that adversarial relationships are necessary, but as you mentioned, the heirarchy of management/associate does not allow for the same levels of negotiation that are often associated with friendship.
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