Kiss up kick down
Kiss up kick down is a
Examples of use
Robert McNamara
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists described Robert McNamara, an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, as a classic case of the "kiss up, kick down" personality in August 1993.[3]
John R. Bolton
On day 2 of the Senate confirmation hearings, April 12, 2005, for
National Health Service
Calum Paton, Professor of Health Policy at Keele University, describes "kiss up kick down" as a prevalent feature of the UK National Health Service culture. He raised this point when giving evidence at the Stafford Hospital scandal public inquiry. Credit is centralised and blame devolved. "Kiss up kick down means that your middle level people will kiss-up, they will please their masters, political or otherwise, and they will kick down to blame somebody else when things go wrong." [1][5]
Blame in organizations
The flow of
Kick up kiss down
Kick up kiss-down has been suggested as a viable more healthy dynamic.[8] Blame flowing upwards in a hierarchy, Weinberg argues, proves that superiors can take responsibility for their orders to their inferiors, and supply them with the resources required to do their jobs.[6]
See also
- Abuse – Improper usage or mistreatment
- Abusive power and control – Aspect of personal relationships
- Bullying culture – Use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others
- Carrot and stick – Metaphor for the use of punishment and reward
- Culture of fear – Arrangement in which fear of retribution is pervasive
- Kick the cat – A higher-ranking person taking out frustration on a lower-ranking person
- Kyriarchy – In feminist theory, a social system based on oppression
- Machiavellianism in the workplace
- Managing up and managing down
- Mushroom management – Company with dysfunctional communication between managers and employees
- Narcissism in the workplace – Problem producing an impact on an organization
- Occupational health psychology – Health and Safety psychology
- Office politics– Interpersonal interactions within the office
- Petty tyranny– Leader who abuses the leader–follower relationship
- Psychopathy in the workplace
- Scapegoating – Practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame
- Seagull management – Dysfunctional management style
- Toxic workplace – Informal term for a workplace marked by infighting and personal conflict
References
- ^ a b Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry Transcript - day 103 - 21 June 2011
- ^ Calum Paton The Policy of NHS Deficits and NHS Re-form in Health Policy and Politics 2007
- ^ a b JJ Mearsheimer, D Shapley MCNAMARA'S WAR Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 00963402, Jul/Aug93, Vol.49, Issue 6
- ^ Slavin, Barbara (April 12, 2005). "Critic says Bolton a 'kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy'". USA Today.
- ^ Robert Francis (Nov 29, 2011) Organisational Culture seminar: opening statement
- ^ .
- hdl:11250/2452901.
- ^ Harvey Schachter (Jul. 25 2011) Kicking up, kissing down The Globe and Mail
External links
- John Baldoni Aug 28, 2012 John Baldoni: Kiss Up Kick Down Boss
- Eileen Beal Jan 20, 2012 Kiss Up, Kick Down: Is a Bully at Work? Career Management
- Max McKeown Apr 22, 2005 Kissing up, kicking down, Management Issues