overcontrols
Manages too tightly
Overcontrols means to control excessively or with too tight a grip.
A manager who overcontrols micromanages every detail.
A pilot who overcontrols makes corrections that are too large, destabilizing the aircraft.
In psychology, someone who overcontrols suppresses emotions or impulses to an unhealthy degree: She overcontrols her anxiety until it erupts in panic.
Excessive supervisory control
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
bureaucracy · top-down · centralization · autocracy · hierarchy · gatekeeping · bottleneck · approval-seeking
Persistent apprehensive distress
- perfectionismCompulsive pursuit of flawlessness
- rigidityState of being unbending
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
inhibition · repression · suppression · rumination · hypervigilance · neuroticism · self-regulation · defensiveness
Oppressively hot and close
- suffocatingDepriving of air
- constrainingImposing limits upon
- limitingPlacing restrictions upon
- inhibitingPreventing or slowing action
hampering · impeding · strangling · smothering · curbing · suppressing · repressing · confining
Excessive control over details
- hoveringSuspended without support
- overprotectionExcessive safeguarding of another
- smotheringDepriving of air
- coddlingOverindulgent, protective treatment
enmeshment · infantilizing · supervision · monitoring · boundary-crossing · intrusion · surveillance · permissiveness
micromanagement
Excessive supervisory control
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
monitoring · bureaucracy · top-down · centralization · autocracy · hierarchy · gatekeeping · bottleneck · approval-seeking · sign-off
anxiety
Persistent apprehensive distress
- perfectionismCompulsive pursuit of flawlessness
- rigidityState of being unbending
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
obsession · inhibition · repression · suppression · rumination · hypervigilance · neuroticism · self-regulation · defensiveness · inflexibility
stifling
Oppressively hot and close
- suffocatingDepriving of air
- constrainingImposing limits upon
- limitingPlacing restrictions upon
inhibiting · hampering · impeding · strangling · smothering · curbing · suppressing · repressing · confining · binding
micromanaging
Excessive control over details
- hoveringSuspended without support
- overprotectionExcessive safeguarding of another
- smotheringDepriving of air
coddling · enmeshment · infantilizing · supervision · monitoring · boundary-crossing · intrusion · surveillance · permissiveness · authoritarianism
overcontrolsneglects
Fails to care for
abandons · lets go · ignores · disregards · leaves alone
overcontrolsdelegates
Chosen representatives or assigns
empowers · trusts · laissez-faire · decentralizes · permissive