I won't explain too much because my job is pretty niche and I don't want to get doxxed, but I've been promoted to "manager" recently. It's not the kind of manager you're probably thinking of like you'd see at fast food or retail places, I don't determine anyone's hours or pay or anything like that, but I am in charge of assigning work to the people under me and training new employees. The problem is I have to balance the work I do myself and the work I assign to other people. If I keep too much for myself then my bosses wonder why they keep the others around and they fire the peons and I get stuck with all the work. If I assign too much to the people below me then they wonder why I'm even around and I get put at risk of being fired. Obviously I want to keep my job because I have bills and shit but I also don't want to be the person who sits around all day and bosses the people who actually do the work around. I'm kind of just looking for advice.
run your department as a democratic centralist council.
but actually just be sure not to exploit your people, make it clear you are there to support them, ask for feedback and bring them into decision making processes. don't make your decisions a black box, keep things transparent. and subtly radicalize your team. eventually "my cool responsive boss is a communist" will change the way they think about communism.
You joke, but the best teams I've worked on were the ones where the team was making most of the decisions they were able to (namely implementation details on projects and whether or not we wanted to support X dumb thing or if we felt it was worth it to push back on it). There's a limit to how much you can do this under a typical corporate organisation, but it makes a world of difference for job satisfaction and morale.
oh i have no doubt. i work in retail side production/physical labor so we are mostly just following plans and reacting to situations but i still try to include everyone in decision making. this is in an industry that's usually just "do what you are told and stfu" so i've had to condition that out of some of my people