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Christyinsdesign bookmarked on 2008-04-24 orgculture training

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

    • 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.

This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 24 Apr 2008, by Christy Tucker.

  • 25 Apr 08
    discosam
    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.
        • 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).
        • 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
    christyinsdesign
    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.