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INTRUDUCTIONMushroom management is a theory included in management sciences lately The Theory name was called based on metaphor of cultivation Mushrooms such that mushrooms are provided manure and left in the dark for growth, and shortly yield is taken. According to this theory, Mushroom Managers give his/her employees necessary job and tools, but does not inform them about what purpose they are working for. Also, Mushroom Managers attempts to control the all of decision making process (Mar, 2011). The Mushroom Managers do not share strategies, income, expense and risks included, and etc. with them. There is an information asymmetry between manager and employees. Communication channels mostly are closed and Mushroom manager may make solution decisions without consulting the team. Nevertheless, the mushroom managers only expects them performance and result (Kilic, 2015).Description of Mushroom ConceptMushroom Management is the term used to describe how we manage people like we grow mushrooms: keep them in the dark and throw plenty of manure on them (Herman, 1997,66). When they grow? enough, get them canned. A style of management where the personnel are not familiar with the ideas or the state of the and are given work without knowing its purpose. The opposite is open-book management. Curiosity and selfexpression of workers is not supported and employees often have no idea what the situation of the is. Leaders tend to make all decisions on their own and without asking for anybody's opinion first (Mar, 2011). This problem can occur when the manager does not understand the work of their employees, e.g. programmers, and therefore cannot communicate effectively (Laplante and Neill, 2006).This form of management applies to every situation where management is involved. Be it passing on critical information to employees, or informing people of policy change and announcements. The entire purpose is to be as vague and unresponsive as possible. The ultimate culmination and success of this management style can be found when people draw comparisons to management and a black hole. Where resources and information go in and nothing comes out (Baxter, 2005).Example of Mushroom Management:Employee 1: So you talked to management on our companies re-bid for the contract?Employee2: Yea, but didn't get much. said there's nothing to report.Employee3: How can that be? Our contract is up next month, how can they not know anything?Employee 1: Don't ask me dude. Man I feel like I'm constantly in the dark and fed full of shit. Kind of like a mushroom.These characteristics often land the Mushroom Manager in trouble. When in trouble the Mushroom Manager is likely to (Mar, 2011):1. make unreasonable demands of the team2. blame the teamWhy Do Some Managers Apply Mushroom Method?a-) The main reason for this kind of philosophy to be applied in a is that the managers fail their main purpose - to manage. They do not see themselves as someone leading others towards bigger success for everyone, but rather someone who knows everything and the ones below them are just a herd of sheep following blindly. Often unintentionally, the fear of their employees coming up with great new ideas instead of them drives them to make bad decisions, excluding workers from everything except for the actual work. As a result, the employees end up doing loads of work they were given just to do something and not contributing in any other way (www.changingminds.org).b-) The information to be disclosed to employees is at strategic level. For instance, a well-known soda/ cola company does not share its formula with more than 3-5 person. The most important reason is that when this formula is disclosed, number of rival companies with the same taste can join the market. Similarly, when the ship Titanic hit the iceberg, only a few members of the crew knew that the ship would sink. …
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