The prevailing way of justifying workplace benefits is to paint them as a vital tool to attract and retain staff in a competitive marketplace. If we look at things more holistically though, we can view these benefits as one component of building a company where people actually like to work.

Naomi Karten did a web search of “mistakes managers make” and received 262,200 hits. Although many of the unique articles highlight the same or similar mistakes, Naomi found that certain mistakes kept surfacing. Here are the seven most common managerial mistakes.

Adding new members to a team shouldn’t be a big deal, but often it is. If you need to add people to an existing team, take care not to impose the individual on the team. Teams that participate in selecting new team members tend to be much more committed to making the right decision.