Flexibility in managing your manager

I subscribe to the theory of managing up and down the employment spectrum. But what happens if you work in an environment where managerial arrogance abounds? What do you do with a manager who refuses to listen to the workers? 

The very people who perform the daily work know exactly how the job functions, they know how to improve the workplace and provide meaningful feedback on the task requirements. 

If you are inflicted with a megalomaniac manager intent in creating a divisive workplace who is only interested in riding roughshod over the workers, then a combative approach is required. 

A manager unwilling to undertake a consultative approach instead insisting on a command and control approach does not deserve the respect of workers. 

Instead, if a manager is only interested building their personal CV at the expense of good policy and workplace culture, then that manager needs to find out that organisational behaviour and culture can also make their life miserable actually harming their future prospects. 

They soon learn to fall into line and support the workplace increasing productivity and output. The trick is to make their life miserable, whilst they prefer to make team members feel the stress, they are the ones who need to feel the pressure of the job.