WSJ: Bosses Who Fiddle With Employees' Work Risk Ire, Low Morale

Professor Len Greenhalgh via Walls Street Journal about the managerial piddling in the modern office environment driven by "perfectionism, egotism, a control fetish, territory marking, the need to justify a high salary to oneself or others and/or a fear of disappearing."

"One of the problems with management is the sheer invisibility of consequences. You put in a whole day's work and what do you have to show for it?" says Len Greenhalgh, a professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. "If you have a perfectly smooth running department, nobody else in the corporation knows you exist."

Source: Wall Street Journal by Jared Sandberg April 25, 2006