Criticism and PUA can't be distinguished?That can only mean that you really don't put too much effort into the workplace. As long as you take 10 minutes a day to review your leader's behavior, you will never be confused with PUA that criticizes what a leader is.
The workplace is a standard value exchange scenario, even for an informal company. The reason why I say this is because as long as any company has employees, it must have value to exchange with employees.
No employee will "work for love", right?
Since there is a value exchange, the purpose of the leader's criticism of employees should normally be to encourage employees to create value better and more efficiently. In the case of PUA, the purpose is to find ways to reduce the overall cost of employees.
Let's assume that the leader criticizes an employee, and then does the leader help the employee step by step without making the same mistakes?
If there is, it is criticism. If not, it's PUA.
Employees working in the company are like constantly climbing a mountain, and their own ability is not enough to climb to the peak. The role of the leader is to help him climb the "peaks" of work through a series of management methods, and criticism is also one of the methods.
Generally speaking, it is to let employees go up in spirit and ability.
The PUA is to maintain or even decline the psychology and ability of employees through various means, otherwise the leader will not be able to control the employees.
You can understand it by comparing the PUA methods of illegal * sales companies.
The reason why some people are facing the problem of being unrecognized by the PUA and unable to get out is also very simple, because employees are drawn by the company or the leader of the "big pie"**. Always holding the excuse that the outside is not as good as here, maybe I can get the final result, etc., so that I am constantly being led PUA.
Don't look at what the leader says, look at what he does.
Don't be blinded by **.