A shining case study of how “instilling fear in employees to boost productivity” can backfire catastrophically.
It’s a great example of how the inability to inspire, motivate, or sufficiently empathize with people (admittedly, not an everyday skillset) compels an organization’s leadership to rely on coercion as a crutch—collapsing whatever sliver of positive sum dynamics already existed, and throwing everything into perversely incentivized chaos.
There’s some hilarious personal accounts of employees and managers describing looney toons level tomfoolery.
How Microsoft’s ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration.
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A shining case study of how “instilling fear in employees to boost productivity” can backfire catastrophically.
It’s a great example of how the inability to inspire, motivate, or sufficiently empathize with people (admittedly, not an everyday skillset) compels an organization’s leadership to rely on coercion as a crutch—collapsing whatever sliver of positive sum dynamics already existed, and throwing everything into perversely incentivized chaos.
There’s some hilarious personal accounts of employees and managers describing looney toons level tomfoolery.