The rise and rise of management

[LiveinHope]

1 hour ago, Mikhail Liebenstein said:

We just got rid of an Country MD. 

A good MD will protect the staff below from all the corporate rubbish that distracts them from the day job. This chap didn't, so a few left and others complained up the line and eventually action was taken.

Having a bad manager reduces productivity far more than having no manager.

I always took that stance. It was my job to make sure that those working for me had everything they needed to do their jobs, and that included a good morale, and protection from corporate BS and my fighting their battles.

It's always better to have a position vacant than to have the wrong person in it. In my experience, many public sector organisations don't realise that and, almost frightened by a void, will rush to fill management positions without putting in the tedious and painstaking effort required to ensure a good recruitment.

Edited January 15, 2017 by LiveinHope

[Greg Bowman]

1 hour ago, LiveinHope said:

I always took that stance. It was my job to make sure that those working for me had everything they needed to do their jobs, and that included a good morale, and protection from corporate BS and my fighting their battles.

It's always better to have a position vacant than to have the wrong person in it. In my experience, many public sector organisations don't realise that and, almost frightened by a void, will rush to fill management positions without putting in the tedious and painstaking effort required to ensure a good recruitment.

Driven by HR it is the only tangible thing they can get their sticky paws on the actual recruitment process. When as I am sure many of the good managers on here know the objective is to recruit the right person for the role, not to fill the role regardless

[Will!]

My regular job search threw up this "Tax Abuser of the Week"-style beauty:

NHS Improvement:  ACT Academy Associate in Transformational Change through System Leadership

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Working at a national level the ACT Academy is a small expert team who have a high degree of autonomy to design and deliver a suite of long term learning/educational programmes reflecting current national policies to build the capability of teams and individuals across all sectors of the NHS and associated system partners to deliver service and quality improvement and transformational change across the NHS
• Provide capability building in transformational change to support all sectors of the NHS and all staff clinical and non-clinical to deliver sustainable change. Share knowledge and best practice on quality improvement across the NHS in England through the design and delivery of specialist programmes which include teaching and dissemination of tools, resources, and professional networks to support continuous quality improvement.
• Work closely with other teams across NHS Improvement, the principal Arms’ Length Bodies and other national bodies to input and support large scale (complex) change related policy direction and activities
• Represent NHSI, the ACT Academy and its interests at national/public meetings/events as required, acting independently, decisively and effectively in sensitive and political situations. At times this involves delivering difficult messages and contentious information to high level audiences potentially in a hostile environment.
The ACT Academy has two flagship programmes, Transformational Change through System Leadership (TCSL) and Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR). The ACT Associate (TCSL) will focus on the TCSL suite of programmes and will work alongside ACT Academy members in the design, delivery (teaching) and development of programmes to provide transformational change advice and skills nationally across the NHS. 
This will range from awareness raising through to a senior team programme so that the NHS is able to deliver the highest quality, best value healthcare for patients. To fulfil this challenging remit, the ACT Associate will be required to quickly establish themselves as a credible, trusted advisor, build an understanding of the NHS quality improvement needs and draw on effective change methodologies and techniques from other sectors to design and lead programmes that support long-term capability building for transformational change.

£56,104 - £68,484.  Words fail me.

[LiveinHope]

18 minutes ago, Will! said:

My regular job search threw up this "Tax Abuser of the Week"-style beauty:

NHS Improvement:  ACT Academy Associate in Transformational Change through System Leadership

£56,104 - £68,484.  Words fail me.

It looks like grammar fails them

[One-percent]

29 minutes ago, Will! said:

My regular job search threw up this "Tax Abuser of the Week"-style beauty:

NHS Improvement:  ACT Academy Associate in Transformational Change through System Leadership

£56,104 - £68,484.  Words fail me.

Feck me, what does it mean?  I am totally befuddled as what this person's work would look like on a day to day basis.  

Edit to add, looking at the job details it's a training role.  On that salary.  Feck me.

Edited January 15, 2017 by One-percent

[Democorruptcy]

2 hours ago, LiveinHope said:

I always took that stance. It was my job to make sure that those working for me had everything they needed to do their jobs, and that included a good morale, and protection from corporate BS and my fighting their battles.

It's always better to have a position vacant than to have the wrong person in it. In my experience, many public sector organisations don't realise that and, almost frightened by a void, will rush to fill management positions without putting in the tedious and painstaking effort required to ensure a good recruitment.

Their fear is that if they don't spend their budget, it might be cut.

[LiveinHope]

2 minutes ago, Democorruptcy said:

Their fear is that if they don't spend their budget, it might be cut.

Maybe, but also their job is to see the vacant role is filled, and so they'll have an eye on their own annual appraisal when they'll more likely get criticised for not filling the role than for filling it with someone who proves to be an idiot in a year or so. And anyway, who cares if there an idiot is in the role, any problem can be solved with a golden handshake.

[Sterling Loss]

10 minutes ago, One-percent said:

Feck me, what does it mean?  I am totally befuddled as what this person's work would look like on a day to day basis.  

Edit to add, looking at the job details it's a training role.  On that salary.  Feck me.

The plush corridors of NHS trust headquarters are frequented by these smiling, friendly, mostly male managers who introduce their change methodologies and have no contact with clinical work other than as an abstract entity and occasional ethnographic study.  They need to meet with each other constantly for months, then another few thousand pages of policy and procedures will be introduced. There may be a staff meeting explaining something mind-numbingly obvious, irrelevant or impossible to achieve on top of clinical work.  A labyrinthine flow chart may be pinned to a notice board; no-one will ever read it.  Their work is then done..... for now.

[nothernsoul]

The job will involve running meetings and seminars in a cheerily patronising manner,where frontline staff sit there tired and seething, thinking if you really wanted to improve my productivity you wouldnt be wasting my working time with this. Thats my experience of such people.

[One-percent]

60k to annoy people.  I think I might apply, I normally do it for nothing.   the worrying thing is that I meet most of the essential criteria on the job description. 

[Automotive Engineer]

did some one say engineer?

question for the old timers, how much hve things changed since cnc?