Management Malpractice: How to Cure Unhealthy Management
Practices That Disable Your Organization
by Craig R. Hickman
Cynicism
and distrust are rampant in today’s business environment. Eighty percent
of employees want nothing to do with their organizations, or the managers who
run them. Great management principles, historically the backbone of truly excellent
companies, are now often distorted and manipulated by corporate leaders for
their own gain.
If left unchecked, these once great principles turn into malpractices that damage morale, thwart productivity, and destroy companies. Management Malpractice provides practical prescriptions for preventing and curing abuses, and shows how individuals, teams and leaders can work together to restore value to their organizations.
Management malpractice is the single greatest obstacle preventing organizations from becoming great, getting things done, attracting talent, avoiding scandal, developing leaders, making people productive and achieving superior results. It arises from management principles and corporate values that are preached but not practiced and leads to abuses of power, knowledge and relationships in the workplace that encumber systems, impede processes, frustrate people, thwart teamwork, divert focus, and compromise results.
Overcoming management malpractice requires more than new laws, regulations, systems, rules, penalties, punishments and remedies, because management malpractice thrives under highly structured and disciplined hierarchies. Only senior executives, middle managers, first line employees, entrepreneurs and professional service providers who develop an awareness to see it, the courage to expose it and a firm resolve to prevent it from happening again and again in the workplace have a chance to eliminate management malpractice.
This book offers everyone in organizations everywhere a new vehicle for discussion, a new opportunity for change and a new hope for the future of their organizations—a new way to fight the growing epidemic of management malpractice.
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