How do bad management practices perpetuate the psychological recession and exacerbate its toll on a company?
Bad managers frequently feel free to vent negative messages while withholding any recognition, which reinforces employees’ sense they are insignificant. Bad managers don’t relate effectively to subordinates, they are not trusted, they don’t communicate, they are neither liked nor respected. Most managers don’t connect with and engage their subordinates. The Gallup Organization collected a database of 4.5 million employees in 12 industries from 2002 to 2005 and found 20% of employees are engaged, 60% are not engaged, and 20% are actively disengaged. This means that in the majority of organizations about 60% of employees work only enough to keep their jobs and another 20% would hurt the organization if they could. No organization can succeed for long when 80% of their employees are not engaged. What can managers do about this problem of the psychological recession and the behavior of bad managers? What specific strategies work to change employees’ attitudes and improve their productivity
