Sounds like an overzealous manager "respect my authoritah." I often find such people tend to be narcissistic trying to get control of other people because their

Sounds like an overzealous manager "respect my authoritah." I often find such people tend to be narcissistic trying to get control of other people because their own lack of internal sense of control. Edit: It isn't helpful for morale and makes employees want to leave whenever autonomy, purpose, social cohesion/community, and/or meaningfulness are threatened with, or actually, eliminated. I worked at a Big Name university academic dept where an insecure/inexperienced new manager postdoc came in and told the developers they're going to do X his way and they all immediately quit. And that classic video about motivation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWD2HdoZ7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWD2HdoZ7k