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I think a good place to look for clues is in information sources that managers read, for example:

https://hbr.org/magazine

https://hbr.org/

https://teambuilding.com/blog/manager-magazines

Read the articles and imagine your company leaders are following this advice. For example:

"When Your Employee Feels Angry, Sad, or Dejected"

https://hbr.org/2024/07/when-your-employee-feels-angry-sad-o...

Gives advice on what the right thing to do is, to get your employee performing again. It's almost like the leaders do not know this stuff themselves and are learning how to fake empathy. The article creates a two dimensional matrix for when to engage with employees and the two axes of that matrix are "Is your employee focusing on a time-sensitive goal?" and "Does your employee seem to be coping?". If the employee is doing something time-sensitive and they don't seem to be coping the advice is to "intervene and help that person focus". That is, help them focus on their work, ignore their problems, give them a pep talk, "you can do this", wink at them in meetings if they get shot down.

I've watched managers transform from nice people to tyrants due to absorbing stuff like this. They share this kind of advice with their peers also. "10 tricks to get more out of your employees and accelerate meeting your project deadlines". Maybe you could buy your managers a subscription to Psychology Today or something else that you think would be a better influence on them?