Leadership Communication in the New Workplace: Meme

 

I think sometimes, people get the wrong image of management. The functional organizational structure of today is different from what is pictured in movies, tv shows, and other media. Our media portrays a significant importance gap between the status of the workers and the managers. Managers are depicted as authoritative and direct, while workers are merely slaves to their orders (a cause and effect relationship). The modern organisational structure does not work efficiently with this format, however, and requires workers to communicate information and questions to employees, and vice versa. The cartoon above depicts a worker and a boss. The worker questions why the manager is not up in his office giving orders, which causes the boss to reaffirm his position in the modern organisational workplace, stating that he is down here to have talks with his employees. In this way, bosses and workers have a two-way relationship, one that can only grow stronger through more proper communication.

Image link: Young Cartoon Kids Pointing and Looking Stock Vector - Illustration of friends, showing: 31919252 (dreamstime.com)