The synergistic opportunities were slow to be achieved by the company as the managers jostled to have pole position or avoid redundancy. The older managers tried to hold on to what they were used to, or what they perceived they used to have rather than making basell a brave new company. This was a great loss for the business and resulted in an edict from the chairman ' It is every employees duty to consider a benefit to the compnay before a benefit to him or herself'. One year after the formation of the company and appalling losses the policy decision was taken to retire 'old guard' managers and bring on the managers who had performed best in roles that were desperately needed by the new business like 'change management'. This was career enhancing for myself but I had learnt I needed more challenge and a career change but I had learnt much about staff motivation and job design.…
