Yesterday, my company announced an organization restructuring. Restructuring is probably one of the most frenquently used words in Corporate America culture, along with words such as "merger", "probe" or "scandal". A lot of times, restructuring also has an extended meaning of lay-off people.
The re-org annnouced yesterday was supposed to eliminate positions too---but the number of VPs,not ordinary employees. It is said the company got too many VPs throught out the years. Now it is time to lose those unused fat. But when the announcement came out, my impression was that there are some new people named as VPs, of which some postions are newly created. For those "losers", their names are not mentioned and are supposed to leave the company quietly.
Thus,in the end, the restructuring is like a game in the daily corporate culture. For those who win in this game, they come on board, create new organization structures and adopt new strategies ("strategy", right, they love this word). If things work out, everyone is fine. Otherwise, after a couple of years, there will be another restructuring with whatever purposes. What's more important is there will be new VPs, new structures and new strategies. ---Another new game.
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