Symptom: People feel disempowered, and unable to control all they need to accomplish their accountabilities.
If people feel that there is little they can do to affect the organization's performance and their own futures -- if they feel like victims -- then they will not be motivated to work beyond the minimum demanded of them. They will be reluctant to take on responsibilities, since they cannot be sure that they can accomplish assignments for lack of control over the necessary resources. And they will feel badly about themselves, and convince themselves that they are unable to succeed.
This negative cycle creates people who do no more than follow orders. With everything depending on the few people at the top who give orders, executives become bottlenecks that constrain the performance of the organization (and they also tend to have heart attacks from excessive stress).
They are a variety of reasons people may feel (and actually be) disempowered.
