Three Star General under fire for "command climate of fear and low morale"

Missile Agency Head Faulted For Leadership Cited Morale
By Tony Capaccio
Bloomberg News
Jul 9, 2012

The three-star general who heads the U.S. Missile Defense Agency told a House defense panel that his agency’s morale was “significantly higher” than average even as the Pentagon’s inspector general found he had created an “unhealthy command climate” by yelling at subordinates.

The inspector general recommended that Army Secretary John McHugh consider taking “appropriate corrective action” against agency director Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly, because he “engaged in a leadership style that was inconsistent” with military ethics regulations, according to a report by the watchdog office dated May 2 and released last week.

“Witnesses testified that O’Reilly’s leadership style resulted in a command climate of fear and low morale,” the inspector general found.

Reilly portrayed a different atmosphere under his leadership in agency charts sent to the House Armed Services strategic forces panel on May 30. The agency had “significantly higher satisfaction scores than the rest of federal government in training, salary, ethical conduct and diversity,” according to the summary of an employee survey sponsored last year by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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