For years I’ve had a dark hobby: ogling org charts. As a consultant it rather goes with the territory of starting an engagement with a client, or prospecting for future clients. Why? Because the org chart is God’s gift to the consultant and anyone else who wants a direct window on to what it’s like inside an organisation. Yet so revelatory are these documents that I also look at them for fun. And for laughs.
Case in point was one I came across a few weeks ago that I want to share with you today in the first of a wee series I’m hereby kicking off: Org Chart Bingo.
Where the money is
You’ve probably gathered by now that the status of women is pretty important to me. There is one issue within the field that galvanises me like no other, and that’s money. Specifically, equal pay for equal work, and generally, women and money per se, including …
that women are where money is not, and money is where women are not.
What’s so
There are basically three types of organisations in our economy:
- government bodies that produce goods and services
- not-for-profit organisations that produce goods and services
- for profit organisations that produce goods and services and money.
It’s this last group of organisations I want to focus on, specifically, publicly-listed companies. And the game is simply this: to look at the org charts of a sample of such companies, and draw no conclusions or give no explanations. That’s right. Simply to look at the org charts and get the “what’s so”.
Want to play?
Everyone’s welcome to play. Just request a particular company and I’ll look up the org chart, or submit an org chart yourself via email or comment.
In the meantime, here’s today’s org chart. In this case, it’s abbreviated to the list of the executives. It belongs to AGL, a large publicly-listed company that produces electricity and gas. Following are a few quick facts about the company (from the Annual Report for financial year 2008-2009), an outline of the executive group and a link to the list of executives.
Few quick facts
| History | Operating for 170 years in Australia; one of Australia’s first listed companies |
| No. of employees | Not stated, though in the thousands |
| Revenue | $ 5,909 million AUD |
| Net profit after tax | $ 378 million AUD |
Executive group
AGL’s executive group, or “Leadership team”, consists of nine executives. Eight are male, one is female. She is the Group Head of People & Culture. Naturally. A clickety-click and a legs’ eleven for that one. This is how it looks charted.
Link to list of executives
To see the list of executives, click here.
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