India, March 6 -- Boeing's CEO Kelly Ortberg is inviting employees to help expose deep-seated problems in the company, even if the responses are "brutal" to the management.

"I want to hear what the employees have to say," a Bloomberg report quoted Ortberg as saying during his second companywide address to Boeing workers on Wednesday. "And what we'll do is we're going to put an action plan on those things, and I think they're going to be brutal to leadership, quite frankly."

Ortberg who had taken over as CEO in August, had expressed dismay over Boeing's culture in November, referring to the lack of civility people there treated each other with.

He even highlighted the harsh backlash that lower-level workers and managers can face for fla...