Why Managers Should Embrace Their Employee Tech Ideas

“If the supervisor said, ‘Good luck, you’re on your own with this,’ that led to the most overload and the most regret,” Newton said.

Strategies managers can use:

—Managers should give employees the power to run with their ideas by being there and “running” with them.

—Managers should ask employees what they think during the decision-making process, so they feel psychologically empowered in the project and give them a sense of ownership.

—It also hurts morale when an employee’s idea isn’t implemented. If a manager doesn’t go with someone’s idea, explain why. That way, the employee doesn’t think their idea went into a black hole and disappeared, Newton said. It shows their idea was at least given due consideration and leadership wants to keep hearing from them.