Fix The Problems

There are different paths that you could follow to correcting an issue that is slowing efficiency, but any way you cut it, the problem must be fixed.  Do you steamroll the circumstances and knock over whatever road blocks are in your path?  Or do you look thoroughly at the problem, decoding it and searching for the best practical method to approach it?  Either way, the situation needs to be amended, but how you are doing it is nearly as essential as getting it done in the first place.  
It comes from various management styles and some people feel the need to intimidate and bully in order to get things accomplished and some individuals are overly sensitive to the way it makes other people feel.  There has to be a middle ground, not in which you scare your employees, but where they respect what you're saying as well as execute the things you need done, without feeling as though they can walk all over you along the way.  
Occasionally it seems simpler to be callous; to have such a tough edge that nobody is ever going to think about disrespecting or contradicting you and help the individual that thinks about taking advantage of you.  However with this sort of style, there's sometimes something lost in the way that men and women communicate and the way that they work.  Sure, they're worried to do anything but work hard, but are they resourceful, do they really take it to the next level and are they proactive?  
Or are they following the protocols, walking the straight and narrow and following your instructions to the letter?  There is something to be said about having staff that are not afraid to think outside of the box, employees that have minds of their own and can take initiative to do more.  These employees are the ones that you're looking for.  These are the ones that will eventually move up in the business and you'll need to rely more and more on them. 
But there is not going to be any room for them to grow if you stifle them with an attitude and culture that scares them from emerging from their shell of protection. Also, having a workplace where individuals are in constant fear of their job, you have other consequences.  Sure, you get people that stay in line for the most part, but you get people that do not want to stay there.  The good ones will leave.