Senior employees have been at it for a long time, so I sort of understand where this manager was coming from. Imagining that they were the ones who created an environment for greatness for their workers, they felt it was their prerogative to steal their intellectual property. Mind you, this was completely ill-placed logic and reflected poorly on their leadership skills and management capabilities as a whole.
Managers are supposed to lift up their team and bring out the best in everyone, creating a product for the company. At the end of the day, it’s the creatives who are creating the shareholder value that’s so elusive and precious to the higher-ups. Yet it seems the lowly workers and the ideators are the ones who get left in the dust on the shareholder meetings, despite their ideas being the fuel that churns the engines of the entire company.
Maybe someday the scales will be balanced in favor of the working man, but until then, employees need to know their worth, stand up for themselves in the workplace, and call out the managers willing to step on the backs of their workforce.
Author: Kayitsi.com
