Flatten the Org chart....
One of the leaders a few decades back made the comment "You either need to be at the wellhead or in support of someone that was" That logic seemed pretty solid for making the organization right-sized.
But he went away quickly.
What a lot of baloney. Go get an education you moron.
All three of these posts are spot on..... I have been employed with Hal since 1989.
I remember when the managers new every single employee that was under their direct supervision.
Management cared. I noticed things beginnig to get chicken sh-- around 1997.
Each year after that, it just got progressively worse.
To the point that we are currently at.
This is the cause and affect of what is being thought to our children in schools. Then, they go to college and get brainwashed by far left liberal nutty professors.
These people have infiltrated our management. In all companies, not just Halliburton.
Look at our government, it is the same.
The pendulum has swung way way left, it may take several generations the get back to the middle right where we once were.
The entire globe is in a quagmire that will be very hard to right itself..
I do not have an answer, other than just hope and pray that we can get this corrected.
Actually it was never 'always this way' . Originally it was that people worked their way up from the bottom to top management positions. The managers above them knew who was good because they had been participants in training them and top management knew the employees. We had a manager that knew everyone, remembered their names the net time he came to our yard. He KNEW what was going on and how the employees were doing and their thoughts. He could still go out and crank up a cementing units. For the last 20 years, these current idiots could not tell you what a cementing unit looked like and DIDN"T CARE. They believe they are much to important. You are correct too in that a good portion of HR hates the employees, that is the LAST thing they will defend.
Halliburton's 'solution' has ALWAYS been to invent meaningless new titles and 'positions' to keep the useless, non-contributory dead-wood employed, at the expense of the field employees.
It became even more pronounced during the era of Dave, and the rise of HR, as shown by the myriad of 'levels' within the same area of 'expertise'.
Makes one wonder how Halliburton ever became the NUMBER ONE oilfield services providedrbefore Biggus Dickus, and Uncle Dave brought their style of 'management' into being, and saw it all come crashing to the ground.
Maybe all those field hands who became managers and CEOs knew something that Dave and Jeff, and HR will never learn, because of their arrogance and hatred of the field hand, which they consider both a necessary evil, yet an impediment to their well-being.