But when I interview those same young engineers after they've been on the job several years, they're . . . Somehow, management today has to find ways to attract people and interest them in an aerospace career. Managers who assume that workers can be replaced at the next economic upturn, or when the next big government contract is won, are in for a surprise. There's a tremendous shortage of these people, so the model that aerospace works on won't work now. They have a view that 'the parts are interchangeable.
Any employee can do any job.
Politicization of the workplace. Although hardly limited to the aerospace industry, this factor has proliferated as downsizing and mergers created a new aggressiveness to get and hang onto good positions. You'll want the competition to be between your company and your outside competitor companies. Then you wouldn't have all the pretensions and pecking orders of today's management. A perception that one's ideas, hard work and sacrifices are not valued.