Management by fear - IT Project Management

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Sep 28 2008   6:55PM GMT

Management by fear



Posted by: Yusuf Salwati
Project management, CEO, Productivity, Office politics

One of the worst management styles is to use fear as a way to make your employees perform. I have seen few Individuals CEOs and few corporate managers who use the fear factor as a tool to keep their employees performing, what a cowardly and unprofessional way to manage!!!!!!!!

Why communism as a system and as a theory failed? In most communist societies, workers were forced to perform, they kept working because they feared their bosses, or even in extreme cases, feared for their lives.

Unfortunately, we still see managers use fear and power to manage their employees. As a manager who held several managerial positions, I have learned that to get the best out of your employees, you must build solid and open relations with them, to let employees communicate their fears and their weaknesses will only lead to a better performance.

I don’t have a bit of respect for managers who use fear as a way to manage their employees, I think that only show their lack of experience, self-confidence and a talent to manage.

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