The Greedy Corporate Executive
by Observations from the clouds.
It is fashionable to look down upon outsourcing in some circles. There is the stereotyped image of the greedy corporate executive who manipulates a company’s bottom line to extract its resources for short term stock gains while leaving a trail of broken shells of formerly great corporations where once stood strong providers of well-paying jobs in the community.
This image may be cited as a driving force in the “Occupy Wall Street” and beyond movements. Perhaps to an extent it is a valid perception. Therefore companies may be fearful of the growing popularity of this movement and its consequences for their image in the public consciousness. If they are not then perhaps they should be.
With the global economy ratcheting up the competition to the nth degree, the executive management of today’s and tomorrow’s organizations is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Loyalty to the company and its employees is seen as no longer practical. Job security is a rare commodity indeed.
The former sense of entitlement of the western worker to a job for life is as outmoded a concept as black and white television. Free enterprise in the twenty-first century has its head in the clouds and can’t afford to be brought down to earth by dead weight, however worthy.
There is of course an inherent problem to this business truth. It is at its root inhumane and inimical to our perception of a civilized society. This is the stuff of capitalism and when rules and regulations try to tame its dark side, the bright side often suffers as well.
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