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Boeing’s leadership shakeup the start of long road to restoring credibility with public

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March 25, 2024 - Updated On March 28, 2024
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March 25, 2024

The National Desk recently published an article featuring Jim French, Senior Lecturer of Management and Organizations, discussing the departure of Boeing’s CEO Dave Calhoun at the end of the year following production and safety issues with Boeing jets.

After several high-profile crashes, panel blowouts, and other alarming incidents involving Boeing planes, the company is now facing pressure from stakeholders to regain public trust. 

“It’s very detrimental to the employees in the sense that the continuity of implementing new systems, possibly new values, to changing of the culture, all of this takes a great deal of time,” French adds.

The Federal Aviation Administration is reassessing its oversight procedures considering recent events, indicating a need for increased scrutiny of Boeing’s operations.

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James F. French is a human resources professional with over 30 years experience in business, government and politics. He has taught Organizational Behavior at Boston University since 2003 and in January 2012 Jim joined the Questrom School of Business faculty full-time as a lecturer and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2016. In addition to teaching Organizational Behavior, Jim currently teaches Career Management and Global Ethics for the MBA program. Prior to joining BU full-time, he was the Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Hill Holliday Advertising in Boston. Jim has held senior human resource positions at Progress Software, Comverse Telecommunications and Polaroid Corporation. He worked for former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis for eight years. In the Dukakis Administration, Jim was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Employment and Training and as the governor’s personnel director. He has worked on numerous political campaigns including two presidential campaigns. Jim was also the board chair for Cardinal Cushing Centers in Hanover, Massachusetts and Saint Paul School in Hingham, Massachusetts.

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