[thunderbong]

I agree that 'no management' is really damaging but I don't think that's that the opposite of micromanagement is.

Micromanagement is a 'type' of management. As others have mentioned, it primarily arises from lack of trust or having a very rigid way of looking at things.

The manager that you mention should hardly be called that. These people are the ones who have been put in their position without acknowledging their strengths and weaknesses and will obviously end up back-firing.