Bad Management Behavior and Practices

This article provides a brief overview of ‘bad management’ behavior and practices. I generally write about ‘best management’ practices, but it has become apparent in these times that an article highlighting bad management practices is much needed. The results of toxic bad management practices can reach far and wide in an organization inflicting long range damage.

Bad Management Practices

The following is a list of selected ‘bad management’ practices and pulled from dozens of recent articles.

• Bad managers tend to surround themselves with people that look, think, and act alike. They fail to build a diverse management team that offers a broad skill set and different perspectives.

• Bad managers focus on punishing employees who don’t perform as expected. While that may produce short-term results, it generally inspires resentment and lack of trust over the long term.
• Bad managers often fail to accept the responsibility or consequences of their decisions. They always tend to blame somebody else when things go wrong.
• Bad managers only feign interest in employee feedback, and won't actually act on what he or she hears.
• Bad managers work diligently on satisfying short term shareholder desires, even it this works to the long-term detriment of the organization and its survival.
• Bad managers generally do not to recognize employees for their accomplishments, but tend to only criticize their shortcomings.
• Bad managers tend to regard employees as simply cogs in a machine (‘human resources’) instead of as members of a team striving to achieve a common goal.
• Bad managers generally refrain from showing compassion, but rather instill fear and tend to assign blame.
• Bad managers tend to put up communication barriers in order to be less accessible to their subordinates.
• Bad managers who are micromanagers often end up damaging relationships with their employees, sending the message that employees are not trusted to get the job done.
• Bad managers often use bullying tactics when dealing with their subordinates - one of the most demotivating, demoralizing and debilitating of all bad management practices.
• Bad managers do not really understand management and don’t seem to grasp the changing management behavior and practices that are replacing older methods from the last century.

* Read Management in the 21st Century

 

Articles on ‘Bad Management’ Practices and Behavior

The following are some selected articles about ‘bad management’ practices and behavior that you might want to check out:

• Bad Management Behaviors
• Five Signs of Poor Management
• Ten Habits of Bad Management
• Bad Management Practices to Avoid Like The Plague
• What Happens to an Organization With Bad Management?
• The Real Costs of Bad Management and What You Can Do

• Bad Management Practices that Cause Employee Inefficiency 

• Management Styles no one wants to ever see

It seems ridiculous that virtually all organizations knowingly employ people in key management positions that are simply ‘bad managers’. To highlight how silly this is, would you expect hospitals to employ ‘bad surgeons’ ? Of course not. So why would so many organizations hire and continue to employ ‘bad managers’ to run their organization? It makes no sense.