The business press is starting to refer to such management as "looter executives". Psychopaths in charge of the size and disbursement of the bonus pool based on KPIs which themselves are so facile as to be counter-productive.
Staff have a career of thirty-odd years compared to the average executive drive-by of five or less. Staff have to live with the idiot decisions of six generations of executives (and their facilitating paid consultants), all the way to bankruptcy court.
Future direction of Qantas? Hint: it has an S-bend, and you circle it before you pass the event horizon.