Work for Manager or Company ?

saurabh mahajan PMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafone Pune, Maharashtra, India

In my 8.5 years of experience I always encountered discussion with people who were influenced to work for manager rather than a company. However, the lure to work for big brands still persists in many of them.

Possibly because a good manager can guide your career, whereas a good company gives better opportunities.

So will you work in a small company if the manager is of excellent caliber, OR will you work in a big company(fortune 100,500) even if the manager is incapable ?

Posted: Jun 16, 2016 2:09 AM

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Abigail Whitmore Il, United States

I think sometimes we accept a position with a good company, but we stay for the great manager.

Posted: Jun 16, 2016 3:57 PM

Luigi Pavone Prof. Dr. Administrator at Azteca university----| www.univ-azteca-edu.us Wailuku, Hi, United States

Correction:

Adding two choices on your other two to bring sense to your enquiry:
(Read #3 &# 4)

1-Work in a small company if the manager is of excellent caliber,
2- Work in a big company (fortune 100,500) even if the manager is incapable?
3- Work for neither one
4- Work for yourself

According to the above scenario. I would elect # 3 as the most appropriate answer.

Regards
Prof. Dr. Luigi Pavone

Posted: Jun 16, 2016 4:41 PM (Updated by author: Jun 16, 2016 4:50 PM)

George MARK Project Manager| myProNotes.com Lane Cove, Nsw, Australia

Mmmm... usually a company has so called CORE VALUES to which everyone should adhere. If a many is part of a company, unless very new to the company he IS the company. The question is a bit funny.

Posted: Jun 16, 2016 5:00 PM

Khawaja Saif ur Rehman Project Management Trainer & Consultant Lahore, Pakistan

Jun 16, 2016 8:28 AM

Replying to saurabh mahajan

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Exactly I agree with your point.
However, your criteria first learning - I have experienced that if the manager is itself not competent to carry out his day-to-day job what will you learn from him or how he will be helpful to you fetch fruitful assignments, or further help you with your assignments. So in this case only monetary fulfillment will not be enough surely.

With regard to managers, like parents, we do not get to choose them.

Manager (not mentor) by his presence/work style/personality etc tells you or helps you gauge either "how to get things done" or "how not to get things done". In either the case, it's worthwhile. I personally prefer people who set examples and standards of how not to do things. After all, it is with failure that we learn more. :)

Posted: Jun 17, 2016 1:48 AM

saurabh mahajan PMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafone Pune, Maharashtra, India

I will tell my experience now.
as a fresher (I was in another company at that time) i was lucky to have a very capable manager. I always thought of doing things like he did, infact he was my idol for me to think project management as my career. As I gained experience I understood that the rules and regulation of the organization are obsolete in towards world. however I never got the heat of such a mess because of my manager, as he handled it so well.

With that I also had a friend who works in some other big brand organization and regrets to join a project team whose manager is illogical in decision making, not so capable,doesn't have a vision for employee's progress.

This made me think of this question that problem was there in both the companies however I learnt from my manager few skills to handle problems however my friend being a talented person was not able to cope up with the same. This is why I thought and wanted to know what people really work for. Because you learn(even small in quantity) from your manager some skills that help you in future.

Posted: Jun 17, 2016 4:08 AM

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