Influx of new Management from Nalco is hurting - Anonymous employee Ecolab Employee Review

2.0
Mar 31, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong financial performance Desire to do the right thing Company mission and purpose Community involvement Corporate responsibility Associate networks Downtown St. Pau location

Cons

Prior Culture and Inclusion efforts to drive up employee engagement has all but died. In a shared services area, the competition inside the company is creating divisivness and/or apathy. After years of liking the job, then, when a true look and push towards inclusion took hold, loving to come to work - all to be destroyed by concentrating more on the technical aspects of integration versus the people side of integration. I expect productivity, quality, and many other things to suffer.

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