ExxonMobil is stacked with unnecessary layers of management, and too many people hide in those layers instead of doing real work. Flattening the organization would cut costs, eliminate pointless hierarchy, and force people to actually earn their salaries. A leaner structure would improve accountability, reduce inefficiency, and stop the cycle of managers managing other managers who contribute nothing.
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@cq Every one in EMTEC thinks they are SME, so many entitled trash
@jv Correct. All these new hires (Indians) want to be manager
@hs also sounds like Guyana dev team management
Why so many management and leadership roles? That's because it's everyone's goal to be in that role within 5 years of employment, otherwise, you will be labeled as no potential. So we came up with all these unnecessary titles.
So many managers in each EMTEC organization just doing coffee chats
@df Brilliant assessment!!
@df take note of who exactly is getting the chop in the transformation projects around the globe. Certainly not advisable to tell the truth to management because they'll just kick your a-s out when they get the chance.
Leadership doesn't want accountability. They want as many layers (liars) as possible between them and one person doing actual work. That's because the actual worker is first to see the problem, and is likely to tell the truth and expose the gaps. Knowing the truth creates liability the leaders don't want. That's why they surround themselves with an army of advisory architectory, supervisory, talkity talk types. These layers actually breed liars as they all want to be perceived as know it alls with easy answers who sit 'above' the keyboard. The irony is the one one worker who is the sole truth teller of the group is the one under the greatest scrutiny and critique who constantly has to prove themselves. Then, when that person speaks an uncomfortable truth, the conversation shifts to replacing them with H1B. H1B becomes the final layer/liar and nail in coffin for any remaining truthfulness. When that happens leadership is surrounded 100 percent by a hall of mirrors. One layer (liar) reflecting of another layer (liar) and another etc going all the way to infinity. The end result is to all the layers aka liars doing their jobs perfectly and no one really knows what's going on. This is Exxonmobil.
It is comical that the Project Manager of a 3+ billion dollar project has the same title as a Project Manager for a single program in IT.
Emtech hands out job titles like Halloween candy. I’m sure we will all benefit from having 10 people advise 1 person doing the actual work
Most of the reason everything moves so slowly is because sooooo many people feel like they need to weigh in on the simplest things. Our structure is built on that fallacy. So much recycle that doesn't add value. Leave it to the SMEs please. There's a reason the company hired me as an experienced hire for my niche role! I feel like most of my day is filled with last minute requests to fill out dashboard info that no one cares about. I suspect that's the only way all of these layers of management fill their days - looking at dashboards they don't understand, weighing in on dubious decks and coming up with "innovative" plans to move our jobs to Bangalore.
Yeah, we should solve world hunger too. About as likely to be achieved, or even agreed as needed, as what you’ve observed.
Not to mention all the needless safety positions and schedulers and planners. By the way most of the foreman still plan and schedule their work since the planners and schedulers are so useless.
In an ideal company the field leads would report to what is now the SLS’s, so you could eliminate the majority of FLS’s since most of the are out of touch with what actually happens in the field.
I’m sure you could remove even more people in Houston or have AI do their jobs.
That’s like asking Congress to set term limits. The gaps in these DOAGs is reckless at best. This reorg coming will take 10 yrs to recover from. I say break this thing up and sell it or something. The internal bias is fatal.