It is questionable whether this threat even gives offenders any reason to pause to consider. Perhaps reminders about Marie Antoinette might be more pertinent. This is because Lambert, citing research from the Income Data Services, says that chief executive earnings for the top 100 UK comapnies are now 81 times the average earnings of their employees – up from 47 times in 2000. That is a 72% increase. And what is even more alarming is that the base from which they start is so much higher. It is hardly surprising that employee engagement is such an issue. It borders on lunacy that so much effort is expended to “win the hearts and minds of employees” when the fundamentals are so flawed and mean that their efforts are doomed.

What is even more insane, however, is the investors who let them get away with it. There seems to be no recognition of the damage they are doing to their business, or any concept that the rewards could be so much greater. At a time when the demand for better use of our global resources has never been greater, this seems little short of iniquitous, and – unless something is done to realign things – a recipe for disaster.

Certainly the recent lessons from the banking sector appear to have already been forgotten!

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