subordinate
(adjective)
Someone or something placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
Examples of subordinate in the following topics:
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Downward Communication
- Managers need to effectively communicate information to their subordinates; they do this through downward communication.
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Leadership and Decision Making: The Vroom-Yetton-Jago Model
- Is acceptance of the decision by subordinates critical to its implementation?
- If I were to make the decision by myself, is it reasonably certain that it would be accepted by my subordinates?
- Do my subordinates share the organizational goals to be met by solving this problem?
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How Emotion and Mood Influence Behavior
- The implication for behavior is important for both managers and subordinates to understand.
- Managers are tasked not only with monitoring and controlling their own moods and emotions, but also with recognizing emotional issues in their subordinates.
- Managers should strive to balance the emotions of their subordinates, ensuring nothing negatively affects their mental well-being.
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Defining Job Satisfaction
- Superior–subordinate communication, or the relationship between supervisors and their direct report(s), is another important influence on job satisfaction in the workplace.
- The way in which subordinates perceive a supervisor's behavior can positively or negatively influence job satisfaction.
- Communication behavior—such as facial expression, eye contact, vocal expression, and body movement—is crucial to the superior–subordinate relationship.
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Mintzberg's Management Roles
- Leader: motivates and activates subordinates; performs staffing, training, and associated duties.
- Disseminator: transmits information received from outsiders or from other subordinates to members of the organization.
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Upward Communication
- The content of such communication can include judgments, estimations, propositions, complaints, grievances, appeals, reports, and any other information directed from subordinates to superiors.
- Subordinates should make an effort to identify the preferred means of receiving communication from their manager or other higher-ups.
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The Organizational Chart
- Examples of such roles include managers of various departments, subordinates within these departments, directors, and chief executive officers.
- Every entity within the organization—except for the owners—is subordinate and reports to a higher level entity.
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Fulfilling the Organizing Function
- Through delegation, managers transfer authority and responsibility to their subordinates.
- One critical risk of command chains is micromanagement, where managers fail to delegate effectively and exercise excessive control over their subordinates' projects.
- Line authority: Managers have the formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates executing specific tasks within a chain of command, usually within a specific department.
- The superior issues orders and is responsible for the result; the subordinate obeys and is responsible only for executing the order according to instructions.
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Honesty in Leadership: Kouzes and Posner
- In leadership, honesty is an important virtue, as leaders serve as role models for their subordinates.
- Subordinates have faith in the leaders they follow.
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A Leader's Influence
- Leaders use social influence to maintain support and order with their subordinates.