Who else here is currently on the end of a public sector restructuring exercise? How's it going? Processes being followed? Timelines honoured? Communications clear or even happening? What would you score your leaders on their change management skills?
Does it make sense the roles that are being disestablished or does it just feel a lot like a slash and burn cost cutting exercise that also has the side attraction of using restructuring as an easy out to exit people they haven't properly managed...actually that bit I'm not so heartbroken over though it is not good practise.
I'm in the middle of a completely shite restructure at the moment and witnessing a few others around the traps. Leadership fails to put it mildly and PG risks all over the place! Even if people keep their jobs many of them don't want them anymore anyway and have said they will hang around just long enough to find something else.
I really do struggle to understand how gubbermint seem to believe that public sector workers will blindly deliver more work for the same (well let's be honest if you are doing two jobs it becomes less) money. AND then you consider the public vs private sector wage bands for some roles and you have to wonder if the public sector will be reduced to a few saints, a few more who are paid so much they don't really give a toss anymore anyway and of course a bunch of idiots that can't get jobs elsewhere.
Leaders in organisations seem to have this blind faith too that no matter how poorly they treat you, you will just bend over a little further and say No really, I like it - shaft me a little harder why don't you please! WHILE doing more work under the awareness that they plan to outsource all your work anyway (once you have completed a few things for them within their restructuring timetable) so that at the end of the day they can pay some wanky external contractor three times the amount they paid you for the privelage of just being told what they want to hear. Good on ya!
As for that word ENGAGEMENT - if one more person says that in front of me during a poorly delivered restructure update I am going to rip off their head and shit in their neck! I completed my gallup today - big fat woo for that. The leader concerned will no doubt be writing all her poor results (the whole team wants her blood) off to peoples lack of resilience within a change process.
arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
Anyone know of any postie jobs going?
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Originally Posted by Number One
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