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Seagull management

Dysfunctional management style

Seagull management is a management style wherein a manager only interacts with employees when suspecting that a problem has arisen. The perception is that such a management style involves hasty decisions about things of which the manager has little understanding, leading to disruption and the disorientation of resources.

The phrase is a figure of speech comparing such a manager to a typical squawking and messy seagull, with one employee characterising seagull managers as those who "flew in, made a lot of noise, dumped on everyone from a great height, then flew out again, leaving others to deal with the consequences".

References

(25 June 2004). "Lightweight Enterprise Architectures". CRC Press.
Bradberry, Travis. (2009). "The cost of seagull management". Industrial and Commercial Training.
Andreou, Alex. (July 25, 2012). "Why David Cameron is the ultimate 'seagull' manager". New Statesman.

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