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• 25 Apr 08
  

  Sam Bachert

  how NOT to be a good leader/administrator

  leader competence

  • Creating Incompetence (individual level)

     

    Knowledge

     

     
    • Leave training to chance.
     
    • Put training in the hands of supervisors who are not trained instructors.
     
    • Make training unnecessarily difficult.
     
    • Make training irrelevant to the students’ purposes.
     

     

    Capacity

     

     
    • Schedule performance for times when people are not at their sharpest.
     
    • Select people for tasks they have intrinsic difficulties in performing.
     
    • Do not provide response aids (e.g., magnification of difficult visual stimuli).
     

     

    Motives

     

     
    • Design the job so it has no future.
     
    • Avoid arranging working conditions that employees would find pleasant.
     
    • Give pep talks rather than incentives to promote performance in punishing situations.
• 24 Apr 08
  

  Christy Tucker

  Summary of a model for creating incompetence--i.e., what NOT to do

  orgculture training

  • Information

     
     
    • Don’t let people know how well they’re performing.
     
    • Give people misleading information about how well they’re performing.
     
    • Hide from people what’s expected of them.
     
    • Give people little or no guidance about how to perform well.

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