OPINION: Inside the mismanagement that saw heads roll at Rio Tinto — and priceless caves destroyed
in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which contained evidence of human habitation 46,000 years ago.First, Rio Tinto's iron ore division was under extreme production pressure.
But there is a downside. It leaves the corporation vulnerable to poor decision making by any one of its product divisions, decisions that may have disastrous human and environmental consequences that threaten theRio Tinto's chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques has been in charge of the company since 2016.Of course, Rio was aware of this downside of its organisational structure and had taken steps to deal with it.
These functional executives were thus in a position to challenge the product division heads about the decisions they were making. to ensure that 'social license' areas were reflected as an area of specialisation around the executive committee"Theoretically, this function should have been able to pass the word up the line about the impending destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves, so that either the executive for corporate relations or the chief executive himself might have intervened.
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