http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0230737820070803?feedType=RSS
In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.
"The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable -- remarkably disturbing," wrote the study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia.
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They faulted senior managers for not recognizing the signs of workplace strife wrought by bad bosses. "The leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem."
People who are bad at their jobs, managers in this case, get rewarded rather than punished. I have never worked anywhere where this was not the case to at least a degree, and further where the organization suffered greatly for it. Faulty human organizational infrastructure is a driving force behind the failure of strategic corporate initiatives, technological projects and entire business plans. Everyone sees this. No one in a position to do so takes corrective action. Failure results.
People are stupid.
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