If subordinates need to challenge in order to follow, superiors must listen in order to lead.
In other words, the personalities of leaders take on proportions which meet what subordinates need and even demand.
"Bragg's subordinates needed only to carry out his orders and the Army of Tennessee's first clear-cut victory would be a reality".
In daily socializing and faced with organizational challenges, subordinates need to find coherence between their leader's discourse and practice (moral and ethics).
Using professionalism as a norm of evaluation, Filipino workers tended to point out their local subordinates' need for constant supervision, lack of competence and discipline and excessive demands.
Subordinates need superordinates in order to have access to the means of life; superordinates need subordinates to work for them and also to give them the recognition they crave.
They also believed that in order to improve performance appraisal, supervisors and their subordinates need to be enlightened about performance management and its importance.
Research shows that women tend to value their work lower than men, are more reluctant to take credit for what they do, rarely negotiate their salaries or ask for raises, are more willing than men to give up or interrupt their careers for the sake of their partners and children, subordinate their needs to the needs of others and the list goes on.
If you are not sure what your subordinates want, or need, from you, ask them.
Or is it that in keeping with our society's dominant anthropocentric focus, "access" advocates simply subordinate the needs of non human species and in the process risk ultimately destroying them?
Telling minority groups that it's their responsibility to sit back and wait, to subordinate their needs for the good of the party — that implies that "the party" is not theirs as much as everyone else's.
