To set the scene, I work in an IT role, quite specialised, for a global company. We have all been home based since Covid started.
One of my managers (we have a weird structure) is responsible for the functional area, career development, assigning us to business areas etc, and is not present at all. He should be having monthly individual catch-ups, department meetings etc, and he cancels all of them.
The only meeting is usually the annual reward meeting. He doesn’t set goals, we invent them just before appraisals, which does make them nice and easy to have achieved with hindsight.
Day to day is fine as actual work is organised within scrum teams in an agile model.
It’s just really annoying. As one of the more senior individual contributors , it doesn’t affect me as much as the juniors who should be helped to shape their careers. I try and keep an eye on them, but obviously have my own role, and also I’m not a people manager and would never want that role. Our scrum master does a great job of checking in with us individually as well as on a team level.
We have org-wide 121’s coming up, as we are losing staff who are difficult to replace, and senior leadership want to know why.
So far he has postponed it several times for everyone. It includes topics like “What would make you take that recruiters call, or even leave …”
Team debate is how honest to be with him. He’s been with the company 10+ years, this role for 2, so I have to assume his managers think he is great.