Micromanagement is a common style of leaders who not really confident in their team.
A lot of supervisors grow up from a highly skilled worker. They are the best among their teammates. The promotion to wear a supervisor hat is the pride. Later on, happiness seems to be vanished so fast. Being a supervisor is not only tired of doing more jobs, but it is causing real headache every day.
The Failure: When a supervisor sees a bottleneck at the miter saw or a messy weld, they push the worker aside and do the task themselves.
The Consequence: The supervisor loses sight of the “whole field.” While they are cutting metal, a forklift safety violation happens behind them, or a quality control error slips through on another line.
On the opposite side, some leaders not really be micromanagement but hands-off.