10 ridiculous management practices to dump this year

Forbidding LinkedIn in the office? Requiring a death certificate to be submitted when an employee asks for bereavement leave? Forcing workers to spend their own money on company equipment?

These are just three of the worst management practices Liz Ryan highlights in an article on BusinessWeek.com. You’re not guilty of any of the above…right?

“Just when I thought I’d seen the last of Forced Ranking (that insulting and pointless practice skewered by pretty much every management researcher or pundit), up come ingenious employers with new, equally heinous and idiotic practices to replace it,” she says.

Take LinkedIn, for example. Ryan doesn’t mince words with this one. “Those employers will suffer for that branding blackout because LinkedIn is one of the most powerful ways for an employer to build a human presence in the blogosphere. It’s also free. But some employers are stupid and fearful, so they’ve created a LinkedIn blackout where their company’s leadership brand and message should be.” 

Read the complete piece to see what else should be ditched by management this year.