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Participation, Power and Politics

Importance of managing your relationship with your Boss

The skill of managing up with the boss is an important practice for creating opportunities to

enhance the motivation and accomplished performance of the employee. It is your manager who

has the authority and power to appreciate or demotivate you for your organizational tasks and

assigned responsibilities. The understanding of the personality traits your boss possess helps in

building interpersonal relationship with the boss and sets up the opportunities to correctly

comprehend the expected reactions of your boss in particular situations. If you know what might

be the expected reaction in a situation, it relieves stress and save you from panicking by

constructively devising strategies to solve the problem in hand [Lauren Mackler].

The identification of the personality attributes of the boss includes the understanding of whether

your boss is an introvert or an extrovert by nature and how well he likes social gatherings. An

introvert boss is the one who does not like to appear up on every employee’s desk and take

respective feedback enthusiastically and you need to have to build strategy to communicate by

with a person. A good solution might be that you make a list of your accomplishments and walk

yourself by the manager’s office and provide him the list of your completed tasks. This will help

you in building an interpersonal relationship with your boss based on your performance and your

boss will have the right perception that you are pretty productive in your responsibilities and

might be appreciated for it. This appreciation not only motivates you for further expanding your

technical as well as excelling in your leadership qualities. In case of an extrovert manager, he

may want to know every tiny detail of how you are handling the project or how do you

communicate with other team members of the project, in that case you might come up with a

different strategy by continuously reporting to your boss in an enthusiastic manner [Lauren

Mackler] [John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter (20015)].

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Participation, Power and Politics Importance of managing your relationship with your Boss The skill of managing up with the boss is an important practice for creating opportunities to enhance the motivation and accomplished performance of the employee. It is your manager who has the authority and power to appreciate or demotivate you for your organizational tasks and assigned responsibilities. The understanding of the personality traits your boss possess helps in building interpersonal relationship with the boss and sets up the opportunities to correctly comprehend the expected reactions of your boss in particular situations. If you know what might be the expected reaction in a situation, it relieves stress and save you from panicking by constructively devising strategies to solve the problem in hand [Lauren Mackler]. The identification of the personality attributes of the boss includes the understanding of whether your boss is an introvert or an extrovert by nature and how well he likes social gatherings. An introvert boss is the one who does not like to appear up on every employee’s desk and take respective feedback enthusiastically and you need to have to build stra ...
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