After watching a bit of the Enron video in class, I'm disgusted at the type of company culture and employee relations programs established at the company.
Working for an agency whose culture I could see myself working in for a long time, I couldn't imagine surviving one day in that type of environment. The macho, succeed at all cost, step on whom ever mentality is what I perceived to be the company's cause of death. Although this egoistic culture made the company very successful at first, I think it eventually blinded all employees to where the only thing they saw were dollar signs.
Mark Palmer, managing director of corporate communications at Enron, was there during Enron's crisis.
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/06/30/newscolumn5.html
In this article, Palmer admits to having poor employee relations tactics. Although it doesn't talk about Enron's company culture, it just shows how they lacked necessary communications strategies. This may be a result of their focus on money. Where were their plans? If executives knew they were participating in illegal practices, why didn't they have some type of internal communications plan if they were ever discovered?
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