Modern corporate management is starting to stress the softer approach to leadership, rejecting the traditional authoritarian management techniques that depended on fear for empathetic motivators who practice the Golden Rule. The key to each manager's effectiveness lies in their "ability to inspire trust, loyalty, commitment, and collegiality among team members" (Eade 1996). Comparing traditional autocratic managers to abused children who grow up to be abusers, Eade writes that this style of dealing with subordinates causes employee turnover, low morale, which in turn makes productivity suffer.
The antidote to this negative, selfish, ungrateful, blaming approach is to pay more than lip service to making collective decisions arrived at by consensus, rather than top-down directives which ar
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