What does a psychosocial health perspective mean for a practicing manager?
The first things is to reflect upon whether or not the notion of manager is a redundant one. The term itself has connotations of status, control and superiority, and derives from an era when managers told people what to do and monitored their progress towards their goals. This might have been appropriate in information starved environments, pre WW, pre PC, pre-Information systems world, but now it is out of date. A myth has grown that it is possible to manage any enterprise with a set of generic management skills that one might acquire from a variety of sources (though seldom from a business school). The person responsible for running and organisation (formerly known as a manager), is just another role within the organisation. Status and superiority have to go out of the window. If you find this notion difficult, you are in need of some personal development. Once status and notions of superiority are gone the manager must concern her or himself with the things that help the business ru
