{"id":2469,"date":"2011-08-04T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T04:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2012-12-27T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:50:29","slug":"can-you-outsource-a-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/08\/can-you-outsource-a-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you outsource a manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/08\/can-you-outsource-a-manager\/question_mark_blue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5312\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5312\" alt=\"blue question mark\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/question_mark_blue.gif\" width=\"72\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The general answer is yes, you can <a title=\"Outsourcing gives control, rather than takes it\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/07\/outsourcing-gives-control-rather-than-takes-it\/\">outsource a managerial role<\/a>\u00a0but there are some exceptions and industry-specific challenges.<\/p>\n<p>By <a title=\"Explaining outsourcing\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/outsourcing\/\">outsourcing<\/a> I simply mean having someone take on a managerial role as a contractor rather than an employee. Often this means they work remotely (ie not in the business premises) but that is not always the case.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I do the Communications Manager role (including being listed on an org\u00a0chart) for some companies who don&#8217;t need a full time person &#8211; I write their materials and manage the relevant suppliers (designers and\u00a0printers mostly) from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Outsourcing a\u00a0manager role may not be effective in every case of course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a remote manager will be challenged to\u00a0oversee staff in many situations<\/li>\n<li>a retail manger needs to be in the shop to deal with customer issues<\/li>\n<li>a production manager would need to be near the production line to ensure it is working and for any problem solving<\/li>\n<li>a senior manager (eg general manager) who is not an employee may be less effective because they are not as invested in the business they are managing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So next time you are considering a full time employee manager, think about whether or not you could outsource that role effectively.<\/p>\n<p>If you have outsourced a managerial role, even on a short term\u00a0basis, how did it go? Woud you do it again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general answer is yes, you can outsource a managerial role\u00a0but there are some exceptions and industry-specific challenges. By outsourcing I simply mean having someone take on a managerial role as a contractor rather than an employee. Often this means they work remotely (ie not in the business premises) but that is not always the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1279,1295,1293,1199,1294],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","tag-communications-manager","tag-employee","tag-manager","tag-outsource","tag-remote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}