Modern Managers - Forced to Fake it?

Korn Ferry's "Modern Managers - Forced to Fake it?" looks at the new phenomenon of pretending to work. Research suggests that more than one-third of managers admit to faking work sometimes. CAHRS Academic Director and William J. Conaty Professor of Strategic Human Resources Brad Bell calls this trend a "form of self-preservation." When managers are judged by the wrong metrics, he says, they feel the need to fake work to enhance their reputations and bolster the impression that they are top performers.

“More organizations are focusing on evaluating the results that employees are producing, rather than just how much they are working,” says Bell. Firms could neutralize managers’ impulse to fake work by measuring outcomes instead of optics.