Mushroom management

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Mushroom management is an allusion to a company's staff being treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark, covered with bullshit, and -- when grown big enough -- decapitated. The connotation is that the management is making decisions without consulting the staff affected by those decisions -- and possibly not even informing the staff until well after such decisions are made.

This phenonemon is most commonly found in organisations which have a strict hierarchy and barriers to cross organisational communication (especially those with a stovepipe organisation) but can be found in any organisation.

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