Thread: Forest and Bird

Originally Posted by Rushy

The discussion is all somewhat moot for me now as I no longer employ people. Over a number of decades though, I employed a lot of people with degrees and even more people without that level of qualification. The people with degrees were employed into roles where their qualification/s brought the required level of knowledge and skill to add value to the business but I never employed people with degrees into operational management roles. That was my prerogative as the employer and my choice because my experiences had evidenced that when it comes to managing people at the lower socio economic end of the spectrum, processes and plant to produce results against critical time pressures, that domain was better suited to people that had been "in the mud" and knew what needed to be done when the shit hit the fan and who could get people to work as a team because they were his / her team and would work with him / her to make it happen. Just one man's view and as I say somewhat moot and certainly no longer relevant.

@Rushy

I like your approach, are you ex army? Commissions for the university boys, competent non-degree holders NCOs/WOs as operational managers, the rest privates.