Bowling has long treated these upper management positions as a reward for employee loyalty. But where was the reward for employee loyalty to the mechanics, engineers who Boeing has taken every opportunity to layoff and replace with an entry-level wage employee?
At least half the management of Boeing does nothing productive for ads any value to the company. One of the main reason Boeing‘s been trying to outsource so much of its work especially engineering is because they have so much overhead due to so many layers of management that can’t show a profit. Instead of doing the obvious thing which is to get rid of most of the extraneous layers of Management they lay off the workers like engineers and outsource their jobs to another country.
At the same time they want to pretend they have the established and experienced workforce to design a new clean sheet design. The opportunities they had to develop that workforce they chose instead to outsource most engineering to design centers like in Moscow.
The chances of turning things around sre not good. The only chance they have is if they get rid of at least half the overhead and unproductive labor they have.
You have to start with the highest paid employees, which are your director level, senior level managers and vice presidents who literally do nothing except go to meetings that nothing constructive ever emerges from.
This company will never show a profit until the majority of the unproductive labor is let go and the place to start is with 7 layers of management