POAL: The Failure of Mr Gibson

I fear that we are facing the bane of employment relations - the testosterone-driven CEO. Mr Gibson is now bellowing about the 'irresponsibility' of MUNZ because MUNZ won't do precisely what he wants. He is behaving like the little boy in the playground, who can't get his own way. Indeed, he's threatening to take away the ball if his team won't toe the line.

Let us understand that, at the mediation last week, an offer from MUNZ was on the table that gave Mr Gibson an extraordinary level of labour flexibility - the outcome he claim is necessary. Mr Gibson rejected this because he doesn't want to have to deal with MUNZ. He desires deeply to sack his workforce and replace them with contracted labour. He wishes, simply, to throw away his current workforce because he cannot manage the relationship with it. His failure is a striking indictment of his abilities as a manager. The MSM miss this consistently. Mr Gibson, in managerial terms, is failing badly, and blaming his workforce for his own failure.