Nanomanagement is an extremely poor type of management where the manger not only overmanages their employees' work, but all of the employees' other tasks on a daily basis. This includes but is not limited to delegaing meaningless tasks like copy and pasting information, asking employees to send an email for them, etc.
Instead of giving employees general instructions, room to use their imagination and empowering them, a nanomanager not only assesses every step, but also assigns and manages each little task for each step.
This type of management
may be motivated by but not limited to the
manager's concern for details, the
manager not having any work of their own to do, feeling insecure about their position as
manager and having the need to demonstrate their
power to their employees.
The effect of nanomanagement
will be de-motivated employees, lowered morale, increased resentment and low retention
This nanomanagement is out of
control I need to create a project
plan just to wipe my ass and make sure my
manager is there while I do it!
