After hearing the collaboration & better together speeches in one TownHall after another, only to have our managers continue to do the exact opposite, treat employees like garbage & continuously create a toxic environment while rewarding their buddies & degrading the work horses doing double the work... are there any leaders that will actually hold them accountable?
We've tried to our skip level - Directors... Managing Directors... some are part of the problem and others that are appalled, don't have the political power to do anything. We've tried the HR reps but they just say to talk to the very directors that are part of the problem.
Is there anyone with actual power that would be willing to talk to people brave enough to speak out AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!?!
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Cigna is a very very vertical power based organization. Flattening and collaboration on equal footing goes against that model sadly. Fear is used as a bludgeoning incentive, so many decent leaders are too afraid to risk their big paycheck by pushing back and doing what is right. It is much easier to tell SLT “yes” than to protect their teams. The town halls are full of corporate speak designed to gaslight us into thinking Cigna is a happy “family” but in the end they see workers as expendable resources to be drained or laid off, and not valuable people.
I have a feeling a lot of the leadership “retirements” we’ve been seeing are exactly what you are asking for. Leaders who tried to take care of their teams and got forced out.
I would expect it to get a lot worse before it gets better. We can always hope though…
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