Who is a manager? How can he align organizational interest with employees?

A good Manager is constantly aware that he has chosen and that he should develop his team, takes the blame for mistakes made by his his team members, is constantly trying to discover the progress of his team, congratulate them on their achievements, as well as reward and motivate them, predict dissatisfaction of his team members and responds according to situation, spends his time with his superiors, clients, customers, and his subordinate employees, makes decision on the merits of his subordinates, learns new skills or acquires new useful knowledge and immediately passes it on to his subordinates, making sure that in case he get “accidentally run over by a bus“, the knowledge remains on his team, maintains frequent and rigorous work performace audits on his team, and in accordance with these audits, employees are being financially penalized or rewarded.

Consistently communicate the top three-to-five priorities for the firm and make sure people get it

Promote confidence in people

Align interests to responsibilities where possible.

A manager is one who optimizes resources in persuant of operational profits or successful project completions leading to business growth, sustainability and fullfillment of organisational objectives.

By doing so, a manager also enhances the career growth and long term prosperity of the employees as they are aligned by the organisation which is their source of livelyhood and growth.