It's always the problem, isn't it? If top-level management asks for a study of inefficiencies, it gets passed on to middle-level management for implementation. The job is so large, they need a couple more people, then they plan it all, and lower-level management do the work, but not after needing to take on a few more people to handle the extra workload. They'd never vote themselves out of a job, because someone has to write all the memos and progress reports and vision statements and corporate communications and plan the next corporate identity change. The results pass up the chain to middle-level, where anything criticising the endless waste of middle management is weeded out. The end results go to the top, where they conclude that management as a whole is performing wonderfully. What is really needed, they conclude, is for the workforce to be more productive. Have them all work harder, cut minimum fuel, shorten minimum rest, restrict aircrew salaries. Whippings will continue until the morale of the crew improves.
Good - successful review. I think we all now need to award ourselves a bonus for a job well done!