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Pretentious individuals are most of the time lovable and sociable. In the corporate world, they are employees
who moved up the corporate ladder not because of their professional
abilities but simply because of their pleasant influence to the
corporate decision makers.
Honestly, working in a corporate world can be frustrating especially if the organization you are working with is infested with pretentious employees. As defined in Merriam-Webster dictionary, pretentious means making usually unjustified or excessive claims or someone who expresses excessive importance, worth or stature. In my personal observation, pretentious individuals are those whose actions are not synchronized with their inner being. They are show-offs or hypocrites. They tend to
display brilliance of ability that they really do not possess. They also
make imposing parades which are ostentatious. They are people who
pretend to be something that they are not.
If I have my way, pretentious employees should have no room in
the management scene. If you are an owner of a company, imagine
entrusting the operations of your organization to a technically
incompetent individual? Sadly, these types of employees do exist and many corporations are being managed by these types of people.
HR
practitioners should be the watchdog of the company against these types
of employees. They should not allow these individuals to hold critical
positions in the organization. However, as I have witnessed in all the companies that I have worked with, most managers lack formal training. Most of them are usually not capable on developing the potential of their subordinates because they are not trained to manage people and delegate responsibilities. These untrained managers instead of coaching their staff or helping them move up the corporate ladder, secretly compete with them and feel threatened if their staff are showing good performances. As a result, typical crab-mentality will prevail wherein the manager will use his claws to pull down a shining subordinate so that he will not get ahead of him. Other managers will resort to credit grabbing and will take credit on all the good work of his staff but will blame the later in case of failed projects.
HR managers should stimulate career growth of their workforce by rewarding deserving employees using acceptable evaluation criteria. If HR managers will not follow credible evaluation standards, employees will not strive in their work since they see no clear measures for the evaluation of their performances. This will eventually lead to the advancement of "pretentious managers" who are not ready to handle employees and might destroy the career path of their subordinates.
For the undeserving and pretentious managers who made their way up the corporate hierarchy, here is my advice to you: Your charming antiques may have worked in the past, but you cannot forever hide your technical ignorance on your corporate responsibilities. Sooner or later, top management as well as all the people working with you, will finally discover the real score of your brain. If you still have time to shape up, do it overtime! Or else…
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