你确定要改我写的东西吗？

很不爽，当自己写的东西被人改的面目全非，如果改的好了，也就罢了，我权当上了免费的写作课，也算占了大便宜，可要是改出来的文章比自己的原文差的远了，又该怎么样呢？

 

Somebody argued that boss can edit whatever his or her employee write for business as he or she wishes and this is a method to build manager’s authority, while others hold position that if boss cannot write as well as employee, he or she should pay enough respect to his or her employee’s article as this express respect, trust and affirmation along with encouraging a good enterprise culture. In my point of view, to large extent I support the later opinion as giving a proper respect to employee’s work has nothing to do to lower leader’s reputation but build manager’s prestige.

 

In one aspect, it is commonly acknowledged that younger generation may has better education than older people which means junior staff may has a better environment and chance to be better trained in some essential business techniques than senior manager. Obviously writing business letter is most vital skills a business man should have among all business abilities. By applying Opening Policy for past thirty years and arranging more resource for education in decades, students in China have had much more sources and opportunities to be well educated in English and Business related subjects than ever before, many among them even had taken some foreign English test such as IELTS, TOEFL that has a more crucial standard for test takers to achieve, which leads to a significant progress of their English business writing skills than those of people graduated two decades ago.

 

Apart from above, it is also to be estimated that in a healthy progressing company, the average quality of staffs joined same year should increase gradually as well which suggest that a higher possibility that junior staff could write better than senior manager in view by grammar and sentence.

 

Moreover, the senior managers’ viewpoint towards their junior staffs’ writing could probably affect the relationship between management and staff and then eventually contribute or harm teamwork as well as company’s development. Although I do admit that junior staffs are lacking business experience than their senior managers which will cause some problem in their wording and expression, it is really important that senior managers to focus only on faulty aspect of their juniors writing and pay full respect to its better aspect as this will be a wonderful chance for seniors to communicate with juniors and initiate experiences. On the contrary, if senior managers are about to edit a very well-organized article which only has a few improper wording and expression outrageously and regard this as a way to build their own prestige, in most cases, it is likely to behave like a double-edge sword that cuts both way as not only hurt well-skilled junior staffs’ feeling but also damage senior managers’ reputation.

 

In conclusion, senior managers should always be aware to what extent they should respect their junior staffs’ ability and recognize their staffs’ better work, as this is vital to build up a better and healthier enterprise culture and encourage juniors to move forward as well. To juggle an elegant writing from junior staff in order to flaunt his or her authority and ability may not be a wise idea for well-behaved and well-reputed manager.