The company was once a great place to go into and walk out of happy. People enjoyed the good ol' days. Things change, management shuffles. We entrust the Board of Directors to represent the company. The perverbial "torch" is passed on, we've had some great Leaders ( not managers ) Leaders who cared about the company and the people who were employed.
Now it's an assembly line of numbers, everyone is a number, you need to move faster, there's no room for illness, "management" sees that as weakness. I actually had a manager tell me his integrity was intact and he had no problems sleeping at night, I call "BS" . He bold faced lied to me. I say to him, good luck continuing sleeping without any guilt of impacting individuals lives.
As for the C-level folks, your day will come around also, the lascivious life you live now,
I hope , actually I strive to succeed, and have you serve me. Your time as executives ticks just as the remainder of our tick has died.
We can live with knowing our character was never in question. The company is super top heavy, tons of management layers... Listen to your employees, lighten the load, go face the people who you cowardly set a criteria onto managers to ensure they could not be successful.
Face the people who are left behind and see the sadness, they are beaten down.
How will you change morale in a failing company?