Overmanagement

The many labor processes in existence ultimately grow out of some sort of small joy; they take their shape out of the joy the worker gets upon being challenged by some task, a task which ultimately stems from some personal interest, and then the worker completes the task in their own way, and that whole unbroken sequence is immensely satisfying on a visceral level, and helps to develop greater notions of self-worth.

In the abstract, management is a way to further articulate and refine these processes, as outgrowths of that original joy. Or else workers have to coordinate their efforts in larger and heavier processes, which requires some sort of standardization which sacrifices individual idiosyncrasies for the sake of group harmony, greater efficiency, bypassing slower and unnecessary development paths, and achieving outcomes that do indeed benefit everyone materially in the end, at least theoretically.

But then with overmanagement - and a lot of management in this society is by default overmanagement - that labor process is refined away from the original joy, thereby crushing that joy, necessitating some kind of compulsion instead.

This is a phenomenon that grows with the concentration of economic and political power to be sure, but it is also a phenomenon that is internalized by individuals and which continues on past the point of exploitation.