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Use this checklist to rate yourself on the various behaviors of a caring manager.

An overall approach to showing you care involves acknowledging individual views, encouraging people, and being sincere in your interest. As a manager, there are four primary ways you can demonstrate to your direct reports that you care:

As a manager or organizational leader, what you do and say is closely monitored by the people who report to you. Your direct reports focus a lot of attention on you. They care what happens to you, and hope you care about them in return.

Listening

Listening to what your direct reports say about the things that concern them shows them that they are important to you as individuals. You should:

Do:

Step One: Clarify, Negotiate, and Commit to Your Role
Step Two: Understand Your Expected Results
Step Three: Know Your Piece of the Business
Step Four: Build a Great Team
Step Five: Choose Employees Wisely
Step Six: Define and Model Excellence

Treating everyone the same isn't always fair because equal doesn't mean equitable. Ignoring the differences between people means ignoring the impact of your decisions. Fair treatment is equitable when the results of your decisions or behaviors impact employees in an equal manner. When your actions or decisions result in disparate impacts on different employees, the treatment is unfair.

Your direct reports assess the fairness of many aspects of their jobs. They evaluate whether they're being paid a fair wage, whether their benefits measure up to those of their peers, and whether the business culture supports their moral and ethical views. In the day-to-day work environment, they assess fairness in their workloads, interactions with coworkers, opportunities for advancement, and relationships with managers.

It's your job to ensure an efficient and effective work environment – and that starts with you treating your employees fairly. Your direct reports' ideas of what is fair involves their beliefs, values, ethics, experiences, ambitions, and senses of self-worth. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to being fair.

Strategies  to demonstrate fairness in managing direct reports.