According to Wikipedia, micromanagement is a management style whereby a manager closely observes or controls the work of subordinates or employees. It has a negative connotation because of excessive control or attention to details of the manager. Still according to Wiki, excessive obsession with the most minute details causes a direct management failure in the ability to focus on major details.
For me, micromanaging is more of a trust issue. If you cannot trust your employee to do his job well then your tendency is watch him every step of the way, directing him what to do, and getting more and more frustrated of the cycle, because the more you guide him, the more he depends on you. You might not realize it yet but you may have already built a culture of habit of co-dependency between the two of you.
We know that low trust environments snowball to some larger problems. When you don't trust your employee, he then learns not to trust himself, then eventually he learns not to trust others as well, to the point where he trusts close to no one. This progressing spiral in turn cultivates ineffectiveness, poor performance and unreliability along the sides, among others.
http://www.inc.com/tom-searcy/4-ways-to-stop-being-a-micromanager.html
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