This kind of “management” — I use the term loosely — doesn’t constitute good soft skills, either. It’s a field that was built up out of people who often believed that they had good soft skills, while actually having atrocious or even actively pathological ones. The simple fact that people feel not respected by their managers should be a tremendous red flag: a…
…o engineering skills, and crucially, who lacked respect for said skills or the people who had them. This is because a lot of management came out of the early 20th-century version of industrial management, the same field that gave us phrases like “human resources:” the workers are an annoyance and an expense, something which has to be “managed” to keep production quotas high.