Losing game

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According to Fredmund Malik, losers game describes the behavior of managers , which is often observed , of not giving employees any goals and always assuming when assessing performance that the performance achieved despite a high level of commitment and the best of knowledge is not what would have been expected.

This behavior makes it practically impossible for subordinates to perform and to get their work rewarded. It permanently destroys trust . Experience shows that executives who are prone to this type of behavior rarely change their behavior. In such cases, the only option left for the employee to do is to evade the subordination of this failed manager, provided he has this option.

Malik illustrates this leadership behavior using the example of a soccer game by children with goals marked by objects. After a goal has been scored, the stronger player places the goal mark in another place and claims that the posts were there before and that this was not a goal.

If employees are always stupid, without exception, because the boss is constantly changing the rules of the game for his own benefit, the consequences are programmed: the good people and those who have options will leave the organizational unit, and the others, those who cannot do anything about it, for example because they have no alternative for reasons of age, go into internal resignation .

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