The phrase "a highly counterproductive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action, policy, or behavior that is very ineffective or detrimental to achieving a desired outcome.
Example: "The new policy implemented by the management has proven to be a highly counterproductive measure, leading to decreased employee morale."
Alternatives: "extremely ineffective" or "very detrimental".
Any effort at federal legislation now to mandate state and local law enforcement's compliance with ICE detainers will, in our view, be a highly counterproductive step and lead to more resistance and less cooperation in our overall efforts to promote public safety.
But on Friday, ICE Director Sarah Saldaña walked back the remarks to be sure there was "no confusion," saying, "Any effort at federal legislation now to mandate state and local law enforcement's compliance with ICE detainers will, in our view, be a highly counterproductive step and lead to more resistance and less cooperation in our overall efforts to promote public safety".
"Such an approach may be highly counterproductive," he said, citing economic simulations that yielded better outcomes when the Fed maintained its focus on stabilizing the annual rate of inflation at about 2 percent.
JIRA1 is all too often used in a way which makes it, inadvertently, an industry-wide "antipattern," i.e. "a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive".
She added that it would be highly counterproductive.
Republicans and Democrats are aware that attack ads can prove highly counterproductive if voters see them as divisive and intolerant.
The state department was aware of the sensitivity of its delegation's efforts, ordering their missions not to contact their host countries' diplomats "until such a call is received" as "USdel will be interacting directly with host-country expert delegations in Geneva, and premature contacts... could be highly counterproductive".
If directly propositioning somebody for sex is automatically condemned as misogynist, as the campaign appears to assert, then the movement risks being highly counterproductive to the feminist cause and playing into the hands of the sexually repressive, patriarchal ideology that feminism strives to counter.
"It's highly counterproductive," says Orville Pierson, senior vice president at the outplacement firm Lee Hecht Harrison and author of The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search.
According to Ben Bernanke, "Economists still agree that Smoot-Hawley and the ensuing tariff wars were highly counterproductive and contributed to the depth and length of the global Depression".
However, our present data puts a note of caution on those possible avenues, since they indicate that the blockage of Vav family dependent signaling could be highly counterproductive in the case of lymphoblastic lymphoma patients with reduced levels of RASGRF2 gene expression in tumor cells.
