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Yes. I strongly agree that as a Manager, employee should like me. But, to make it very clear, I do not agree that they should like me as a person but, they should like me as a professional or a role model!.

We must remember that, as Managers, we are all responsible leaders. We should be able to guide the team and drive them in right directions. In this situation, your managerial qualities play an important role rather than personal Qualities. Of course, personal qualities too are required but if I am asked to rate here, it would be 90:10 respectively.

The advantages of being good professional Manager would be -

1. Your company likes you because you are delivering what they need!.
2. The employees like you because, you are able to guide them to right place.
3. The employees also like you because, you are driving the team in right
directions and goals are achieved.
4. As a result, the team performance keeps improving.

Qualities of a good Professional Manager:

1. Be disciplined, with respect to time.This may be attending your own meetings or
some other meeting. Your on time presence counts.
2. Have listening skills or capabilities. This may be in meetings, when an employee
is speaking to you or when your Manager is speaking to you. If you have to be
good speaker, you need to be a good listener too.
3. Develop analytical skills. Defining, Measuring,Analyzing,Improving and
controlling any kind of a problem would bring you positive results.
4. Never stop improvements. You should keep improving the process you are handling.
It may be a production industry or a service industry or even hospitality.
Improvements should never stop.

If these are part of your DNA, one could succeed in being a Manager professionally and I am sure you will be liked personally too.

Sometimes personally we should become good too. It depends on situations and circumstances. However, this should be limited to situations and circumstances only. Else, it will be turning wrong signals to the employees resulting in the manager becoming weak.

A manager can also become a 'liked' personality by participating or leading Social responsibilities. Examples could be - "No smoking" or "Quit smoking" campaigns among the employees, organizing events to recognize the teams performance etc.

To conclude with, I feel that Manage responsibly and you will be liked professionally as well as personally.

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