Gen Z knows
Gen Z has turned against taking middle management roles, says the FT
I like to say that I’m a caught-in-the-middle manager between the faculty and the Dean. The Financial Times has presented a write-up of a new study on the views of younger employees on middle management (up to 27 years of age). Some choice quotes.
half didn’t want to be middle managers at all. Almost 70 per cent dismissed such jobs as “high stress, low reward”.
The FT agrees:
it is not hard to understand the views of the Gen Z-ers. Long hours, endless firefighting and tedious personnel management are the usual markers of these roles.
Having just completed my annual performance review, this paragraph resonated with me:
Middle management also has an image problem. Instead of guiding and developing talent, these bosses are seen as bureaucratic enforcers, drowning in paperwork and performance reviews,
Yikes.