Poor Management abounds in all areas of business, whether, small, medium, large, sole, and corporate and multinational, there is no biased based on size or type where this issue is concerned. It is why businesses fail, why there is corporate greed, why employee retention is a thing of the past and why businesses lack the growth potential they could have.
A fact is that most managers have agendas that are not conducive to being ethical well rounded managers and leaders. Many managers lack knowledge, experience and most importantly leadership skills. Very few people are born leaders, but we must have managers. Many managers obtain their positions through manipulation of previous positions and by getting in with other managers and obtaining status not through knowledge and leadership, but rather by acting the right way to impress people for the wrong reason. Leaders push the bar, think outside the box and rock the boat, however, for many owners, board members and upper management this is not always a quality they want to encourage, or they are worried these few with REAL leadership qualities will outshine their own so they bypass them for people with say lesser qualities but seemingly moldable qualities that will never be over shining to their own. However, this usually leads to Poor Management, and subsequently to lack of quality leadership in a company.
There are few companies that can boast quality in the leadership group, and for those that can, it is also obvious to everyone one around them.
Poor Management is so entrenched in all areas of business that it has become acceptable to have managers that are less than appropriate at handling the business and employees. The Television Series, The Office' embraces this, and cuts so close to the truth that we may even say, well that happens in my office, but it doesn't seem that funny. We laugh at our own errors and ways, and they become acceptable, yet the underlying damage that Poor Management injects into business is so long lasting that we have become complacent to the effects.
Many times you will hear employees say, oh my manager does x but that's okay because I know she/he does that to everyone. Just because it is knowledgeable does not mean it is acceptable, and only breeds more issues. Being a manager does not give you right to act differently to your employees. It means that you must act the best and be the most appropriate at all times. Do unto others as they would unto you. If you do not know what you are doing, don't fake like you do, because you are a manager, ask your employees for help, and you will gain back ten fold. Not knowing as a manager is not a crutch, it is keeping you real, and it is allowing your employees to know you are. You are continually learning, just because you became a manager, does not mean you now know everything and your employees know nothing.
Ultimately Poor Management filters down, and for the most part it entices employees to replicate the bad example, because there is no direction or balance.