What are the signs of a bad manager?

Everyone likes to complain about their boss now and then, but here are10 signs that you have a truly bad boss, the kind worth getting away from. And if you’re a manager and recognize yourself in any of the below, it’s time to immediately send yourself to manager rehab!

1. Yelling. Managers who yell actually diminish their own authority because they look out of control. After all, a manager confident in her own authority doesn’t need to yell because she has far more effective tools available to her. Don’t yell, and don’t work for yellers.

2. Fuzzy expectations. If your manager doesn’t communicate clear, concrete goals for your work, and convey to you what success in your position would look like, she’s falling down on one of her most important jobs. A good test: If you and your manager were both asked what’s most important for you to achieve this year, would your answers match?

3. Unreliability. She says she’ll review your report by Tuesday, but it doesn’t happen. She promises to join you for your important meeting but doesn’t make it. She says she’ll forward you a client’s contact info, but it never arrives. You need to be able to rely on your manager to do what she says she’s going to do, just as she needs to rely on you for the same.

4. Unwillingness to make decisions. This often takes the form of managers neglecting to address performance problems or not firing low performers. But it surfaces in other ways too, like not taking responsibility for moving work forward or punting in favor of trying to reach consensus.

5. Unreasonable demands. Holding staffers to a high standard is a good thing. But insisting that people work over the weekend to complete a project that isn’t time-sensitive, or demanding that an employee do the truly impossible, is the mark of a tyrant.

6. Indirectness. When a manager sugarcoats to the point that her message is missed, or presents requirements as mere suggestions, staffers end up confused about expectations, and the manager ends up frustrated that her “suggestions” weren’t acted upon.

7. Ruling by fear. Managers who rule through rigid control, negativity, and a climate of anxiety and fear don’t trust that they can get things done any other way. Of course, it backfires in the end because fearful employees won’t bring up new ideas for fear of being attacked and won’t be honest about problems. Moreover, very few great people with options are going to want to work for a fear-based manager.

8. Defensiveness. Managers who respond defensively when their decisions are questioned end up quashing dissent and making employees less likely to suggest new and different ways of doing things. Managers who are secure in their authority aren’t threatened by dissent, and they recognize that others’ ideas are sometimes better than their own.

9. Drama. A good manager minimizes drama, rather than causing it. If everything is a crisis around your manager, she’s probably what’s at the center of the problem.

10. Fear of conflict. If your manager avoids conflict and tough conversations, chances are high that employees don’t hear much feedback and problems don’t get addressed.

Lying and dishonesty with the lack of discipline as an administrator role model

Poor time management.

Simple, a bad manager is that whose hard to approach and does not listen well.

There are many criteria on which one can be decided/labeled as a bad manager. However, to me there are5 things one should not compromise in order to be a good one:

1. Care about the reputation, good name, successful development and well establishment of the company.

2. Care about the development, wellbeing and motivation of the stuff. 

3. Never compromise between1 and2 unless it is for the greater good.

4.  Improve working conditions with a friendly yet professional attitude and motivate the stuff by being an example to follow.

5. Should have strong negotiation skills, be tactful, organized and disciplined.

           If he is not able to perform the above to me he is not suitable for the job.

A solo player as opposed to a team player

Poor communicator

Doesn't begin with the end (organization's goals) in mind

Poor planner

Puts his/her personal interests before organization's interests

Considers staff loyalty to himself/herself highet than staff professionalism

Poor performance manager

Belives the he/she is always right and knows everyhing better than anyone else

Employ a poor value system relative to the community

For me I always admire a person who Has Vision and courage to do things.

1  Wants to do and monitor everything himself (Micro Manager)

2  Do not trust his subordinates(Mincro Manger) 

3  self centered

4  Ego

5 Resistance to Change

6 Poor Communicator 

Unprofesional attitude, working style and behaviour.

1. Poor communicator

2. Places SELF before other colleagues / teams / organization during decision making i.e. Self centered and self oriented

3. Self imposing anbd lacks team spirit

Bad Managers are people who are afraid of the subordinates.

Managers who are affraid of delegating their work becuase they don't trust the others.

Managers who lack the ability to motivate their team members.

Managers who constantly demand and get their work done. 

Managers who faily to be in the front and lead their team. 

Managers who are afraid of failure.

Managers who are afarid to take the risk. 

Managers who are afraid of change. 

Managers who are afraid to speak about facts. 

Managers who are afraid of their own supervisors.