Doing this would also allow authority to become more widespread, eliminating the dictatorial style that middle managers thought existed. Next, it's clear that communication is a big problem, because the foremen don't feel like upper management hears them, and upper management doesn't feel like the foremen understand them either. In this case, they should organize a meeting for all employees and managers. During the meeting, they must be specific with the expectations of all employees, managers included. Holding another meeting individually with each manager to define production objectives. Finally, I would highly recommend doing team building exercises with all managers to improve any trust issues the plant manager has with his management. When they are able to build trust and gain some authority in reasonable amounts, this should eliminate much of the low morale and encourage empowerment through motivation of managers and employees, thereby increasing production which makes fault in this area.