Objectify people as much as possible.
Let's face it if it wasn't for Barr's Iron Law of Mediocrity (People will work just hard enough not to get fired) most of your employees would be worth more to you for the chemicals you could extract from their bodies. Studying best practices from tyrants we find an important lesson: Treat people like the statistics that they are. I know all the management speak put out about "rallying the troops" and "fulfilling the corporate mission" but that's the dog and pony show for the purchasing public. The bottom line is that it is much easier to drive cattle than waste time dealing with individual personalities. If you treat people like the means to an end that they are its much easier to use them that way. Referring to "that guy in the 4th cubicle" is far more bossship-like than cluttering your mind and wasting brain cells remembering useless information about him like his name and (groan) his spouse and the endless tribe of children he's spawned because he was too lazy to go to the drugstore.

The cubicle is an excellent tool for objectification. Cubicles are really sensory deprivation chambers that allow you to limit interaction among the inmates. They provide sufficient amounts of isolation so they work against stuff like creativity. People who are objectified develop (for you) a healthy sense of alienation and depression. They stop trying to "be" somebody and just accept that their total meaning and purpose in life is determined by someone more important (you). You may even notice that they develop a slack bovine like expression. This means they are reaching a level of apathy conducive to useful manipulation. Good past tyrants provided just enough subsistence to make themselves and the organization indispensable to the individual cog. Worker/cogs get so tied up with just existing that they aren't going to develop any ambition to go elsewhere. The cubicle becomes their world. The cubicle's confines are easy for the worker/cog to understand and don't provide any challenges. The cubicle provides a nice secure level of objectification and anonymity. They can be king of their little cubicle. They can belong to a democracy of zeroes...where its virtuous to be zero. The workers are relieved of the need to make choices instead they are happy just to accept conclusions. Over time your workers begin to take on this objectified role and even strive to be "happy cogs" by doing things like competing to be more cog-like (whoever invented "employee of the month" deserves a bosship award).

Objectifying people is liberating. It's honest. You don't have to lie and say other people are important or "special" when they are redundant, boring, and consuming oxygen higher life forms could be using. Simple, direct, honest, and efficient, that’s objectification for you!