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A good post Gas Bags. However despite the many good points about still working at Qantas because of managment you tend to do your job and go home. As much as i hate to say it you become disengaged and therefore the company suffers from many staff who could provide great feedback and ideas to make it a better airline not providing that input. So, we end up in a spiral dive until new management can come in and put an end to it. I hate to say it but thats no where in sight at the moment.

Dragon, "New Management" won't come in, not unless the company destroys itself and is sold to new owners with a realistic outlook.

Narcissists perpetuate themselves. Qantas will not recover unless and until they are removed, root, stem and branch, and the management and human resources tools for that removal process do not even exist today, and may never exist.

To put it another way, I know of no organisation that has recovered from an infestation of narcissists in management without a near (corporate) death experience.

I have an acquaintance who has been a Director of one of the Big Four banks for some years. I asked her what her strategic imperatives were; "My job is to make sure that the people who work for me can succeed at what they are doing" was the reply. You will not find that attitude at Qantas, in my opinion.

This fits with the Sunfish inverted management triangle, where the CEO is on the bottom, supporting the entire edifice. This is a concept completely at variance with the Dixon/Clifford theory that the Board makes the world go around.

The only thing I venerate about Gough Whitlam was his comment that election to the Board of Qantas was the closest thing in Australia to membership of the House of Lords.

Well Clifford certainly sees himself as King and if the rumours are true he is ably assisted by a 165cm Queen
Occasionally you come across someone in management who appears to have been employed by mistake.ie normal.Unfortunately they dont last long and the Status Quo again prevails.
Before the rats are cleared out it will require a catastrophe and loss of life.
I detest the rats but I dont want loss of life.
Like so many QF employees I am stuck and so will have to accept that though the reality at QF is unacceptable its never going to change.I will have left before Qantas becomes a carcass.