Reward systems can sometimes provoke bullying as aggressive tactics could be thought the best way to rid supervisors of either underperforming, or overperforming subordinates.
The commander of an army brigade based in Batumi declared his loyalty to Mr Abashidze, only to find most subordinates going the other way.
Allegations of illegal wiretapping led prosecutors to accuse GERB's campaign manager and Tsvetan Tsvetanov, a former interior minister, of "deliberately allowing his subordinates, the directors of the wiretapping department, to commit crimes".
And they considered themselves as great artists, training their own subordinates and handing the mantle on from one generation to another.
He blamed it all on "treacherous" subordinates.
(He also has a reputation for being un-Japanese in his dealings with subordinates, confronting them with their mistakes rather than simply nodding politely).As an entrepreneur, Mr Semmoto "looks for the contradiction" (as he puts it) and then pounces.
In a strongly worded ruling, he wrote that there was "not even circumstantial evidence" to support the allegation that Ms Fernández or her subordinates had interfered with the investigation of the Jewish-centre bombing, or that they had asked Interpol to cancel its arrest warrants for the Iranians suspected of involvement in the attack.
Thousands of desperate Chinese risked their lives to swim by night across the waters to Hong Kong, seeking sanctuary from the brutality.Goaded from his comfortable ignorance, he wrote a book called "The Chairman's New Clothes", which described the Great Helmsman as an autocratic emperor in the old tradition, complete with jostling, scheming subordinates.
Moreover, bosses are not short of advice, from consultants, industry experts and management gurus, not to mention their own subordinates.
Guidelines drawn up by two of his subordinates, for example, recommended testing the new, sterilised clotting agents for six months before approval.
And, like Jack Welch, the boss of General Electric, Sir Martin is famous for dressing down subordinates, with phone calls at 2 am and e-mails fired off at all hours.But the normal rules of management do not readily apply in advertising.
