Culture change needed - Management Novartis Employee Review

3.0
Jul 31, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Novartis provides a lot of great benefits and for the longest time had a great culture. They have a lot of capital and some very good products.

Cons

In the past year, it has drastically turned from a team atmosphere to one or two people making all of the strategy and then monitoring to the nth degree. There is no collaboration of thought, no empowerment of thought/actions, just a command of execution and then when the execution is fulfilled but sales do not follow the blame only goes to the sales teams

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Pros

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Cons

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