Companies with a 'culture of fear' are worse-performing


  • October 3, 2015
  • /   Ron Stallcup
  • /   economy

Business reporter, Rosie Taylor, has an article at The Daily Mail about a  study by the Chartered Management Institute comparing traditional hierarchical firms with those owned by their workers.

Here are the findings of the study:

1. A culture of fear in the workplace can decrease productivity.

2. Employees working within strict hierarchy are more likely to waste time.

3. Workers who had a share in ownership of their company were more likely to apply values of fairness, trust, humility and courage.

4. Workers at companies with a strictly hierarchical structure were four times more likely to describe their managers as 'commanding, controlling and coercive'.

MY TAKE: It’s nice to see a study that backs up what I have observed first hand.

You can read the story and the comments here.

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