unManager = someone with the responsibilities but none of the formal hiring / firing power, grade or pay to accompany the headache
Seemed to be a common trend when I left a while back
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I was a Senior Manager for several years at DXC and left about 16 months ago. When I was there managers had no discretion or power to do much of anything. I was always fighting with my HR rep and the leader above me for support and for support of my team. My team was making its numbers and turning a nice profit and I still could not get support. Even crazier was that so many employee actions occured without me knowing. I was fortunate to have some employees get stock awards and even small bonuses when I worked there but I was the last to know. They just showed up with no warning. I was happy with that and employees happy to get something, but they knew I had not been I informed. The executives did not share strategy with managers and HR actively withheld information from managers and employees. I tried not to be an “unmanaged” and had a hard time fighting for support. I couldn’t take it anymore and left for a much better place and better pay.
Yes of course they do. DXC upper echelons selectively empower these people, with pretend roles - to oversee the subordinates. By this I mean, you have got to be a real bottom feeder with no morale compass, to take on a managerial role without the title, or financial remuneration. Or just stupid, take your pick!.
These people often thrive in their roles as well, loving every minute of it. Making their subordinates lives a misery.
The company is filled to the brim with managerial interlopers, who report up the chain to their paper-tiger overseers.
There's only a handful of people really calling the shots at DXC, the rest are imposters.
and they continue to use unExecs at the senior levels
unExec = someone with the responsibility to grow the business but none of the experience/capability to achieve this, other than to receive ridiculous bonuses each year despite the company shrinking quarter after quarter - usually hired by DXC after signally failing at Accenture or IBM ... leave after 3-4 years and never seen again in IT industry
Nowt has changed.