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This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind.

There's a weird culture of management arrogance at TVNZ. It's persisted over the last two and a bit decades of personal experience with the company, despite restructures and staff turnover.

It seems to manifest in two ways:

  • distrust of staff, as in management not trusting their reports at the bottom of the hierarchy
  • cognitive dissonance between what is and what should be

Consultation with staff for restructuring has never been genuine: the plans are always already made and the "consulting" is actually just "telling".

Planning for the future has always been an ivory tower exercise by management, apparently because management have the "overview" but then don't place any value on the worker's knowledge of the actual work. Staff know there's plenty of penny-wise pound-foolish bullshit work done "but it's the TVNZ way so keep doing it".

In this case there's one of two root causes:

  • ineptitude: no one thought that they'd better check employment contracts for relevant clauses they'd negotiated
  • malevolence: they did but chose to ignore them
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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was more asking about the people leading it, and it sounds like he wasn't the instigator. He sounds like a good manager, it's always nice to have a manager that protects you from the BS and just lets you get on with doing your job. I've been lucky enough to have a few of those in my time.

[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was a shareholder and board member too. He 100% was an instigator.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Boards only need a majority not a unanimous vote. It seems like it would be a bit shit to vote to make all the other departments restructure, but not your own one.