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 phenomenon is most commonly found in organizations which have a strict hierarchy and barriers to cross-organizational communication (especially those with a stovepipe organization) but can be found in any organization.
[edit] References
- Mushroom Management: Don't keep your workforce in the dark
- End to Britains 'Mushroom Management' culture
- Applepeels: Apple's Mushroom School of Management
- CIO Magazine: The virtues of chit-chat: Making IT work
