Work-Life Balance and Employee Well-being
- The company culture has led to stress-related health issues amongst employees, necessitating an on-site health clinic. Some managers and directors report difficulties maintaining a work-life balance due to frequent customer-related emergencies.
Employment Stability and Transparency
- Executives tout no layoffs, but that really means no severance package as workforce reductions continue and backfill reqs are transferred to other departments in a shell game as alternatives to formal layoffs.
Performance Evaluation and Career Advancement
- The performance evaluation system, while described as "pay for performance," uses a forced distribution curve. This approach ignores individual achievements and changes pay for performance to performance based on interpersonal relationships (good ole boys club) rather than objective performance data.
Leadership and Management Style
- Author and speaker Lencioni describes a skillful politician as "hungry and smart" but lacks humility. You can only find them with "dead bodies in their wake". There are a lot of skillful politicians in management right now. Cleverly ambitious, manipulative behavior that presents humility for self-gain (i.e. MVP of the team), and disrupts team cohesion are their calling cards.
Organizational Priorities and Workload
- Challenges with frequently changing priorities and an increasing number of events and outages. This contributes to workplace stress and affects overall job satisfaction.
Communication and Trust
Executive promises and actual delivery brings distrust in leadership. Open communication and open door policies sound good, but are used to hurt employees in performance reviews.
