More signs of dysfunctional workplaces

This is a great article with a list of those infamous traits. The following seemed to jump out at me based on everything going on lately.

Decisions are made at the highest level  possible.
Regardless of what it is, you have to check with your boss before doing it.  She also has to check with her boss. So does anything really get done? No. Not without a lot of stone rolling up the hill.

Delegating means telling somebody to do something, not giving them the power to do it.
The total antithesis of nursing, but reality sometimes.

Management approaches from the latest best-seller are regularly misunderstood to mean what we're doing already is right on the  mark.
"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," "Good to Great" and "Who Moved My  Cheese?" all seem to boil down to, "quit griping and do more with less."

Or a Lean Six Sigma class...where the resources just don't happen to be allocated to your department.

Stay tuned...more to come