mismanagement

Etymology

mis- + management

noun

1. The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
   The value of the firm's stock fell precipitously when word leaked out that officers of the company were under investigation for gross mismanagement.
   … it also charged the Newmarket Railway £600 a year for the management or rather—as the Chairman of the Newmarket Railway did not scruple to call it—the mismanagement of the line. 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533
   After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble. March 8 2023, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50