incompetent management

collocation in English

meaningsofincompetentandmanagement

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incompetent
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈkɒm.pɪ.tənt/us
/ɪnˈkɑːm.pə.t̬ənt/
not having the ability to do something as it should ...
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management
noun
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪdʒ.mənt/us
/ˈmæn.ədʒ.mənt/
the control and organization ...
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(Definition ofincompetentandmanagementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Clearly, they believed that the report might be used to proveincompetentmanagementof the destructor, so they never made its contents public.
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That tells a terrible tale ofincompetentmanagementin life-threatening situations, which must not be allowed to continue.
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The only thing that has not changed in the coal industry between pre-nationalisation and now is the bad,incompetentmanagement, especially on investment decisions.
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It lacks planning and is riddled withincompetentmanagement.
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It may be due toincompetentmanagement, failure to modernise plant and designs, unsatisfactory labour relations and a whole host of other contributory causes.
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This is a result ofincompetentmanagement—nothing else but that.
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The market framework rewards efficiency and makesincompetentmanagementvulnerable.
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My fear is thatincompetentmanagementmay seek to hide that incompetence at the expense of the employees.
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Regardless ofincompetentmanagement—that is no doubt true—we have relatively low-paid postal workers and no blame should be attached to them for what has happened.
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Can that be described asincompetentmanagementof the economy?
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Is that attributable toincompetentmanagementof the economy?
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I dare say that there has been muchincompetentmanagement.
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His view was that there wasincompetentmanagementin an unsustainable and crazy false market.
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Many of them are having to sufferincompetentmanagementand soaring costs.
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In addition to that, we have seen collieries ruined byincompetentmanagement.
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Those restrictive practices could not have continued for as long as they did without the connivance of weak and, and in many cases,incompetentmanagement.
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Many of our problems arise from grossly inefficient andincompetentmanagement.
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In too many places, they are being exhorted to do this from factories which are still underincompetentmanagement.
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In the case of banks, whose greed andincompetentmanagementprecipitated the financial crisis, the finger was pointed at people, or rather, at bankers.
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Is thatincompetentmanagementof the economy?
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