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  • I fully expect of my reports (L4) that if I (L3) impose a policy (of my own making, for my team) on them that clashes with their work to speak up, to discuss with me why the policy doesn't work the way I thought it would, so we can develop an alternative solution that fulfils both my requirements and theirs together. If our L2 manager imposes such a policy, they expect us L3 team leads to do the very same thing and come back to them with an alternative plan that we have developed on our own or possibly together with our reports. For this purpose, transparency about where a given policy ... Commented 2 days ago
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    ... originates is crucial, and the knowledge that one's concerns are heard (even if ultimately overruled) is the foundation of trust between reports and their manager. (Trust, incidentally, being one of the main pillars L1 management likes to promote as a core value of the organization.) I think this is also Management 101. We are engineers, and if I impose some rule, I am expected to list good reasons for it rather than just tell my reports "Do it that way." That is why I consider it controversial to deliberately misrepresent who gives what reasoning for this policy. Commented 2 days ago
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    @user139158 that's a lot of words to say you don't like it. Commented yesterday
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    "Managers are expected to implement the decision without saying "the boss says you have to do this." This is Management 101" No, it's not. It's standard procedure to tell people at what level a decision was made. Commented 19 hours ago
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    There's a big difference between "the manager doesn't say that the boss says you have to do this", and "the boss says that the manager has to claim that they want this". That's basically the Boss soliciting fake testimonials, which is fraud. Commented 13 hours ago