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https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/non-executive-directors/
Non executive directors? I'm confused?
Non executive directors? I'm confused?
Welcome to RAF PLC. Profit today, manpower as a resource is expendable and replaceable!!!! Unless you are in the higher echelons of course!!https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/non-executive-directors/
Non executive directors? I'm confused?
Of course, all of this assumes that someone good enough to reach Air rank is thenThe theory is that those people who have spent years reaching the top of an organisation or industry (the executive directors) become so attuned to the organisation as they have known it that they become incapable (or, at least, less able) to see other opportunities or better ways of doing things and hence they and the organisation fail to change and develop as they could. By bringing in 'outsiders' as non-exec directors (they sit on the board but have no real power in the organisation) you bring in experience from a wider range of backgrounds and businesses to advise on other (sometimes better) ways of doing things.
The issue I have is that defence has different constraints to business (we have to contend with treasury rules and have no choice about where/when we operate, for example) and people still have reasons for joining the services (for example a full career in one service - we don't allow/encourage people to do 5 - 6 years in the RAF then change to the RN for a few more before moving to the Army or back to the RAF) which are different from the reasons for taking jobs elsewhere so not all external good ideas are valid or useful in defence.