Symptom: Supervisors continually meddle in people's work.
When a supervisor (at any level, from first-line to top executive) manages every little decision and does not delegate authority, people become resentful, feel disempowered and ineffective, and learn to wait for instructions rather than take initiatives. This, of course, is highly demotivational.
There are reasons, of course, why supervisors feel compelled to get involved to such a degree. They may feel that their staff is incompetent or incapable of getting the job done without them. Or they may not know how to delegate well.
