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Fairness in management

A classical, difficult question. I had a chance to talk to Sin-Yaw, VP of Sun at ERI, about this topic. Actually, this talk happened before, at least couple of times, too. He has a version of definition of what is fairness in management and I would say that I agree with that. That is fairness in management is to let people know the rules of the game.

That said, to be clear and transparent about goals, expectations, competencies, metrics, etc. is a basic requirement for a manager. That requires certain level of skill sets. However, the more difficult part is that you can only do this as much as possible because people are different. In other words, different people have to play together under the same rules and you'd like to motivate them to do their best.

Moreover, you are part of your manager's team so you yourself are in the game, too.

Welcome. Your IQ and EQ will be tested constantly on this topic in your professional career life. Hope it's fun.

Posted at 02:40PM Mar 16, 2007 by kzhou in Sun  |  Comments[0]