Maybe they're just stimulating the Hawthorne Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect Or, as one of

Maybe they're just stimulating the Hawthorne Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect Or, as one of my more cynical co-workers put it, they're blurring the lines of management so that no one ever knows who or what exactly failed.