Mushroom management

Mushroom Management is an allusion to a company's staff being treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark, covered with dung, and, when grown big enough, canned (fired). The connotation is that the management is making decisions without consulting the staff affected by those decisions, and possibly not even informing the staff until well after such decisions are made.

This phenomenon is an anti-pattern most commonly found in organizations which have a strict hierarchy and barriers to cross-organizational communication (especially those with a stovepipe organization) but can be found in any organization.

References

• Mushroom Management: Don't keep your workforce in the dark
• End to Britains 'Mushroom Management' culture
• Applepeels: Apple's Mushroom School of Management
• CIO Magazine: The virtues of chit-chat: Making IT work

External links

• Urban Dictionary: Mushroom Management