My manager marks the daily meeting as mandatory (if you don't attend you must send your daily update before to the team chat).

And he exploits them as follows:

1. A way to guarantee that all team members will be available until that time.
2. A way to push team members to keep up with schedule/hint that new tasks shouldn't take long (AKA status meeting).
3. A time to say what team members didn't do good.

Is it considered to be a good approach?