Army begins move to alleviate toxic leadership within its own ranks
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[QUOTE]Top commanders in the U.S. Army have announced publicly that they have a problem: They have too many "toxic leaders" — the kind of bosses who make their employees miserable. Many corporations share a similar problem, but in the Army's case, destructive leadership can potentially have life or death consequences. So, some Army researchers are wondering if toxic officers have contributed to soldiers' mental health problems.
One of those researchers is Dave Matsuda. In 2010, then-Brig. Gen. Pete Bayer, who was supervising the Army's drawdown in Iraq, asked Matsuda to study why almost 30 soldiers in Iraq had committed or attempted suicides in the past year.
"We got to a point where we were exceptionally frustrated by the suicides that were occurring," Bayer says. "And quite honestly feeling — at least I was — helpless to some degree that otherwise good young men and women were taking their lives."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]... a more complicated story began to emerge, he says. In addition to major problems in their personal lives, the victims also had a leader who made their lives hell — sometimes a couple of leaders — Matsuda says. The officers would "smoke" them, as soldiers call it.
"Oftentimes platoon leaders will take turns seeing who can smoke this guy the worst. Seeing who can dream up the worst torture, seeing who can dream up the worst duties, seeing who can make this guy's life the most miserable," says Matusda.
He says the evidence did not show that the soldiers' leaders caused them to commit suicide. But the soldiers' friends said leaders had helped push them over the brink.
"When you're ridden mercilessly, there's just no letup, a lot of folks begin to fold," Matsuda says. He submitted a report stating: "[S]uicidal behavior can be triggered by ... toxic command climate."[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.npr.org/2014/01/06/259422776/army-takes-on-its-own-toxic-leaders[/url]
fuck yes hopefully the rest of the branches do this, my brother and his wife had enough problems from these kinds of people
(( If I'm correct, this is just removing asshole officers, correct? ))
[QUOTE=Hole;43451199]fuck yes hopefully the rest of the branches do this, my brother and his wife had enough problems from these kinds of people
(( If I'm correct, this is just removing asshole officers, correct? ))[/QUOTE]
Removing them, and taking steps to ensure trainee officers don't go toxic.
the green weenie will still exist, it'll just be a little more flacid but will want to fuck all enlisted over.
I've seen mostly shitty NCOs and those are the ones usually causing people grief more often than officers. I remember there was this guy who ended up killing himself because of constant harassment. What's even worse is they didn't know he was dead because they just wrote him down as being AWOL and never bothered checking on him or even going to his barracks room. He had been hanging there for a week.
[QUOTE=-Rusty-;43455942]I've seen mostly shitty NCOs and those are the ones usually causing people grief more often than officers. I remember there was this guy who ended up killing himself because of constant harassment. What's even worse is they didn't know he was dead because they just wrote him down as being AWOL and never bothered checking on him or even going to his barracks room.[/QUOTE] sorry what does NCO's and AWOL mean.?
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;43455974]sorry what does NCO's and AWOL mean.?[/QUOTE]
NCO = Non Commisioned Officers.
AWOL = Ran off, basically.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;43455974]sorry what does NCO's and AWOL mean.?[/QUOTE]
[B]A[/B]way [B]W[/B]ith [B]O[/B]ut [B]L[/B]eave
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;43455974]sorry what does NCO's and AWOL mean.?[/QUOTE]
Absent Without Official Leave. It just means unauthorized absence.
NCOs (non commissioned officer) would be your enlisted service members such as a Sergeant. Officers are Lieutanents, Captains, Majors, etc.
[QUOTE=TheKingofBees;43455102]the green weenie will still exist, it'll just be a little more flacid but will want to fuck all enlisted over.[/QUOTE]
This is about the Army not Marines bro, the green weenie will always serve to fuck as many junior sailors and marines as it can.
don't you think it might be a good idea to name which army it is in the title?
either way this is never a bad thing, this kind of crap exists far beyond armies too
[QUOTE=-Rusty-;43455942]I've seen mostly shitty NCOs and those are the ones usually causing people grief more often than officers. I remember there was this guy who ended up killing himself because of constant harassment. What's even worse is they didn't know he was dead because they just wrote him down as being AWOL and never bothered checking on him or even going to his barracks room. He had been hanging there for a week.[/QUOTE]
That's fucking sick.
Those guys deserve stockade time.
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