What are the things that bosses do that drives the staff mad?  There will be complains about bosses being too meticulous at work which cause unnecessary overhead on the staff.  Staffs are made to work late or be always on their toe in order not to be penalised.  The problem of over-supervision will create unnecessary overhead to you and your staff and no productive output is created in the process.  Find out more today if you are doing things that are annoying your staff!

• Check your grammar mistakes (not your report content) – one of the most annoying things that a boss can do is become an English teacher.  They like to do checks on grammatical mistakes and enjoy plucking each problematic grammar made.  Come on, be more productive and work on the content!  If they like to check on grammatical mistakes, its best for them to have a career in teaching then what he is doing now!
• Check your language structure of your reports – This is acceptable at least then being an English teacher.  The important thing is that its objective that someone counterchecks the work before it gets sends out to senior management or the public.
• Enforcing working culture, styles and ideology to their staff – The boss always emphasizing that their work style is the best effective method in the world.  Come one, there is no best effective method!  There is only the best effective method that works for the individual.  The boss working style may work for him (at his level) but may not be applicable to the others!
• Enforcing timeliness of attendance at work – That is, you must reach office by 9 am in the morning.  Not later than that or else you are screwed.  You can only leave office only after 6:30pm.  Not earlier than that or again you will be screwed.  There will be no room for excuse if you are late and there will be no room for discussion for leaving early.  This creates unnecessary stress to his staff for rushing to work and having to arrange and abide to the work timings in the office.
• Being the police officer and checking on everyone – The boss assumes the role of a police officer.  He patrols your cubicle and watches your every activity.  He goes to every corner of the office to locate where you are if you are not present at your desk.  You get penalised for taking too much time at the pantry seeping coffee or having a casual discussion with the girl from the accounting department.  Of course, not mentioning if you happened to be checking your personal mail from Hotmail too!  Nobody wants to be watch over like an inmate, relax a bit and give your staff some room to breath!

If you are such a boss or superior, you’ve got to chill out a bit!  Micromanaging your staff in this way will only hurt you in the long run!  You are not ensuring productivity being created.  Through these processes that you put in place, you enclose your staff to work in a restricted environment (like pigs in pig farms).  You created more overhead for yourself by always performing these micromanaging tasks.  You’ve also created overhead for your staff for always having the need to abide to your micromanaging work style.  In the long run, they get tired of it; morale lowered and may eventually leave you.  Is this what you want to achieve?