Unconscious Sabotage
I was reading this article in my RSS reader this morning, and a thought occured to me.
Dropped Call Earns Ousted Sprint CEO $55.3 Million in Severence
It is a matter of fact in many mergers like this, that many of the people helping to integrate the merger are going to lose their jobs following the merger. This clearly means that it is in their best interest, consciously or not, to delay the integration. This could be in the form of deliberate non- or slow- work, or it could simply be a decision to jump ship before they're pushed overboard.
Billions of dollars were spent on this initiative, and I've got to think, that some portion of that would have been better spent in "exhorbitant" seeming bonuses to a large swath of relevant technical people. The first structure that occurs to me is a year's salary when the merger is completed, and an additional year in severance if their job is lost during a certain time period, rather than saying "as a result of the merger" which would be too easy to work around.
I clearly have not looked at specific numbers and have no idea how well this would work. I know it's been done for "higher-ups" in various mergers...but where it would be most efficiently applied seems like it'd be the higher level rank-and-file.
Thoughts?
Dropped Call Earns Ousted Sprint CEO $55.3 Million in Severence
It is a matter of fact in many mergers like this, that many of the people helping to integrate the merger are going to lose their jobs following the merger. This clearly means that it is in their best interest, consciously or not, to delay the integration. This could be in the form of deliberate non- or slow- work, or it could simply be a decision to jump ship before they're pushed overboard.
Billions of dollars were spent on this initiative, and I've got to think, that some portion of that would have been better spent in "exhorbitant" seeming bonuses to a large swath of relevant technical people. The first structure that occurs to me is a year's salary when the merger is completed, and an additional year in severance if their job is lost during a certain time period, rather than saying "as a result of the merger" which would be too easy to work around.
I clearly have not looked at specific numbers and have no idea how well this would work. I know it's been done for "higher-ups" in various mergers...but where it would be most efficiently applied seems like it'd be the higher level rank-and-file.
Thoughts?