Employer asking me to take less responsibility? Constructive dismissal? [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I was hired as a VP at a company to lead all aspects of a new business unit - sales, marketing, operations and product development - centered around a new product line. I am 6 months into the role and doing well, however the company's core business, which I am not a part of, is having a lot of challenges. The CEO would like to compensate for the eroding core business by accelerating my business unit in which he sees a lot of promise for the future.

The executive team is proposing that - to go faster and best use the full capabilities of the organization - we should 'fold in' my unit into the greater organization and redistribute my responsibilities to them (ie. my marketing responsibility would go to the VP of Marketing, my product development responsibility would go to VP Product, etc.)

If the CEO agrees, and all my responsibilities are redistributed to the various functional executives, I'm not sure yet what role I will have left, if any. One idea that came up is that I might play a product specialist role supporting sales, but this would be a different role with significantly less responsibility.

What are my options? Should I wait to see what new role is given to me? Discuss with my CEO proactively for a new role? If they keep me at my current title but change the role to be a small subset of the responsibility I was hired for, isn't that 'constructive dismissal' ?

manpreet 2 years ago

What I read between lines is that there is idea of your CEO of organizing BU on one side and idea of the rest of executive team of redistributing BU functions on the other side.

Sounds that there is in a matter of fact the confrontation of concepts of organizing between your CEO and others and that you personally are not the target.

It is more the battle of your CEO than it is yours.

Do you dispose with figures and analysis of these 6 months that support the survival of your BU?What are arguments of the opposite side?Are there facts that show that your BU does not make a profit?

You have to seriously analyse the existing position of your BU together with your CEO.So do contact him but not because only of your position, his is in a bigger jeopardy if BU fails.You have to work together in order to approve the existence of this BU or you two fall in the package.