The National Contract Management Association defines micro-managing as “a management style in which a supervisor closely observes or controls the work of an employee” in its 2007 article, “The Consequences of Micromanaging.” No matter what your role in the company, whether entry-level employee or executive leadership, you recognize that micro-managing decreases productivity and employee morale.
At the same time, legal and procurement professionals often find it against their nature to want to delegate — their attention to detail, analytical nature and years of experience make it difficult to entrust others with contracts they can most of the time do faster themselves after having written and executed similar contracts “a million times.”