The impact of micromanagers' attributes on employees' performance / Nurul Nazirah Hishammudin

In an organisation, the leadership style of a leader is depending on the personality of the leader and their followers. This study discusses one leadership style which is micromanagement where micro-management is not widely covered as Macromanagement hence the research is to add on to the micromanagement research information. Many employees do not realise they have been micromanaged by a micromanager due to the lack of awareness about micromanagement. Micromanagement is a type of management whereby the leader is considered as a ‘dictator leader’, meaning that the leader controls the success and failure of an organisation and everything within it such as the employees. Prior studies on micromanagement often associated micromanagement with negative connotations and only few scholars believed micromanagement has a bright side. Thus, this study is carried out to find the relationship between the micromanager attributes and the employees’ performance and also to determine the impact of micromanager attributes towards the employees’ performance. The attributes of micromanagement in this study are namely the attention to detail, controlling, inflexible about rules and fear of failures. The data needed was collected using a questionnaire and the measurement was established based on prior literature discussed in this study. A total of 300 respondents who worked in Experian (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. are involved in this study. The finding reveals that there is a positive significant relationship between the controlling, inflexible about rules and procedures and fear of failures attributes towards the employees’ performance while the attention to details attributes showed no significant relationship towards the employees’ performance. Next, the finding shows that the micromanager attribute of being inflexible about rules and procedure ranked first, controlling attributes ranked second, attention to details ranked third and fear of failures ranked fourth in terms of significance on employees’ performance. Hence, the finding of this study provides results regarding the relationship between the micromanager attributes, employees and its impacts.