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The Importance of Middle Management

Despite the common perception that middle managers are unnecessary, they actually play a crucial role in companies and are likely to outlast other positions due to their importance in management hierarchies, ability to motivate staff, and involvement in hiring and firing decisions.

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Reasons for Middle Management Importance

• 📈 Middle management is important because it helps to translate the long-term vision of the company into actionable duties for teams, and ensures that teams have everything they need to perform those duties.
• 👥 Middle managers can motivate staff by rewarding hard-working employees and punishing slackers, and their existence can motivate people who want to move up the corporate ladder.
• 📊 Middle managers are involved in hiring and firing decisions, and are usually the last people targeted during layoffs due to their value to the company and the difficulty of firing them individually.

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Common Criticisms of Middle Management

• 🚫 Many companies don't hire middle managers for the right reasons, such as managing processes instead of people, rewarding good employees with a management title, or promoting high-performing employees until they are given a job they are not good at.
• 🤦 Companies may use flawed systems, such as the Matrix organization or dotted line reporting, which can confuse employees and make it difficult for them to know who to talk to about what.
• 📉 Middle managers are often ridiculed, but this is often because companies don't understand the value they bring, and instead view them as unnecessary or inefficient.

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Benefits of Middle Management

• 📈 Adding a layer of management can make planning and delegating tasks easier, and can help to prevent underperformance, malpractice, and fraud.
• 📊 Middle managers can help to reduce staff turnover by providing opportunities for advancement and promoting a culture where staff can easily get feedback and permissions from their bosses.
• 💼 Companies can avoid the high costs of hiring and onboarding new employees by introducing more managers and promoting from within, rather than hiring new staff.