[croon]

> If the only method for your manager to know what people are working on is to tap people on shoulders, then doing that isn’t a “bad behavior” for the manager, it’s necessary behavior.

It is bad behavior, for two simple reasons:

1) The tapping of the shoulder (both literal and figurative) doesn't award any information, only the question afterward. So focus on what that question is, and implement whatever information that gets you (if any) into another system that doesn't require you huffing around interrupting the flow of your employees.

2) If that is your only method, you have already failed, and anything you do in that position that is not directly related to getting out of that position, is bad behavior.