- Changes in education reimbursement policy (was 100%, is currently below 6,000 annual cap for graduate degree) makes the company less desirable to work for.
- Other companies pay more
- All company picnics/charitable monetary matches/open houses cancelled.
- in current economy, management is focused on short term results affecting bottom line only (via outsourcing of internal work and supply base, contract push-out's, etc.)
- Management is not fostering healthy supplier relationships - actions being taken will cause future business with suppliers to suffer
- Performance reviews not taken seriously by all management - reviews and merits are based on a quota system. Additionally, employees are not given proper access to resources, time, and training in order to meet specific goals. Certain initiatives (relating to order policy, dock/reciepts scheduling, etc) actually make goals more difficult to achieve. All employees have same goals (cut & paste template flowed down to all) in Performance Tracking system.
- Honeywell corporate focuses on 40 hours mandatory training per year in their recruiting process. However, Aerospace does not support employee development/training, especially in hard financial times or end-of-year timeframe. The Six Sigma Certification is more a "degree mill" than learning process resulting in tangible process improvements. Teams have been certified in less than 1 week when in actuality a Green Belt/Six Sigma project should takes several weeks.
- employee morale very low. Management experiences high turnover in terms of people & initiatives/policies.
- Increase in salary is based upon your relationship with management (who you know) & roles changes, not so much excelling in one's current position. Most do not stay in a role more than 18 months (little personal or financial incentive to do so). This results in little positive impact to the business - the employee learns the job and leaves for another job and bump in pay.
- extreme fear of layoffs as sourcing, production & support acitivity is phased out to low-cost regions abroad.
- Changes in health care policy to "encourage" voluntary retirement viewed as unethical by some emloyees further decreasing employee morale and loyality.
- Top executive bonuses do not match pay cuts inflicted upon employees actually performing the work which keeps parts moving & customers satisfied.
