R-E-S-P-E-C-T: How to Earn it!

Well said. The three magical attributes- Consistency, Fairness and Freedom. Truly such a leader could be a Godly personality being liked by the whole crew.

The trouble is,

A single man's direction- clear AND RESPONSIBLE

2 men enter- difference of opinion starts

3 men enter- politics starts

and the complexity of politics goes up based on number of human beings.

The manager with the above 3 attributes will be an accepted leader and positive team work can excel in such an atmosphere.

A cohesive team with unbiased fair leader is a heavenly venture and leads to prosperous performance

If you talk to anyone in the military, you will find two kinds of respect.

If I outrank you, you have to respect me for my rank.

If I'm a good leader, I will earn your respect as such.

(During the Vietnam war, a lot of incompetent 2nd lieutenants learned this the hard way when someone under their command prevented them from getting a whole platoon killed.)

I think this applies to civilian life, too. My boss gets a degree of respect because he's my boss, but has to earn anything beyond this minimum amount.

I.ve work the construction industry for 50 plus years Respect is earned not only with position but with experience and knowledge of the project. I still work in my field and the problems that are coming for the workers is the extreme lack of knowledge by the people that in charge, this will continue until the death toll out pace profits.

I entered the working world when I was 18 and it took my about 6 months to figure out that respect is earned not demanded. The best bosses I ever had knew they did not know everything and acted accordingly and I respected them highly for it.

The worst bosses I ever had had no apparent concept of their own arrogance, ignorance, selfishness, and most often out right stupidity. They had no respect from the working crews and were given a wide path by many just because if someone didn't do what they said the way they said to do it they made dam sure everything else ground to a halt until their unrealistic expectations were met.

There are countless examples of local companies and businesses that hired a new supervisor or manager in order to shape up the business only to have him sink the company because his actions had the senior work staff jump ship and most of the others they were looked up to by follow suite as well.

One good boss or manger can bring a sinking company back to life but yet a one bad one can far more quickly drive off all of the skilled and knowledgeable staff in a very short time.

When 20+ year senior staff go looking for new jobs a month after the new boss shows up maybe theres a sign he has no respect from the rest of the employees. That company is then going to pay dearly to replace that level of experience or to get the old ones back!

But yet hiring one good well respected person may just bring along a following of others who will go where he goes just because he is respectable and worth following!

Todays date I have a better knowledge to learn my system better than my boss

but i never tried to bypass him and contact directly to management

same time I dont have better followers or juniors to work on system

so i have tension that if i open up with my knowledge all pressure will come on me

Please guide me to solve this problem

I have seen companies ran well and some very well by bosses/owners that do not give a rip if their employees respect them or not. I do not believe most employees have to respect their boss to produce if the boss knows how to do his job and work the men. The worst thing I have seen ruin a good job is a boss letting the workers make decisions about the same things in different ways than he knows is the quickest and the best. The first time you let a sorry worker get away with a bad decision then you will loose the respect of the whole crew There is a point on most jobs where you will get a good worker with a bad attitude and respect is not what makes this type produce. You have to get on them and stay on them until they quit with the attitude or at least leave it at the house. If you let them know you will not tolerate them bringing it on to the job and contaminate your whole workforce the other employees will see it and you will start to gain their respect. You may have to threaten to run them off the job and hire a replacement if they start that attitude crap to get some people to work. Just don't make idle threats if someone calls your bluff you have to be ready to act on it or there goes any respect you may have earned. If you keep it in your mind and make it clear that you did not take your job to earn respect or friends as well as show respect and/or reward a worker when they do a good job you will gain respect (or maybe fear) in return. Every one likes to be respected and it is allot easier to get a job done with workers that do respect their boss but it is not required. IMO