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- Due to its large corporation structure, talent, merit and competence are often not valued. Internal politics dominate employee promotion, salary raises and treatment. - A lot of senior managers are more worried about their positions' / careers' security. Therefore they keep quite about harassment or other unprofessional behaviors. - Depending on department, employees are expected to do a lot of unpaid overtime without prior notice - Human Resources department is not proactive. A lot of serious issues get disregarded. There is also a lot of traffic in and out of the department. Many of HR people are new and are not knowledgeable on serious problems that may have been going on for a long time. - HR doesn't follow the confidentiality policy with employee feedback/ consultations. I witnessed first hand senior level managers sharing this type of info in groups.

Control freak, suspicious atmosphere.: You will be subject to remarks, suspicion, or even subtle threats if you physically visit another department. Silos company: Department are spread in 5 floors. Few informal communication: each group stays between themselves. Speak up is not recommended and you should communicate by email to have proofs. You can only rely on few number of people and be discreet. No leadership: Top-down , obey and execute style of management. Management methods using fear is the rule. People reach management positions because of their seniority in the company and/or hard-skills competences and the majority do not have the skills to manage people. They do not receive training on this purpose. They do not accept, not interested in, and do not know how to deal with feedback or different styles of personalities. It is common that employees go to their desk, do not say hello to other employees they don't know, and sit without saying a word all day long. Work activities: Task oriented repetitive actives where you accept to keep low profile and accept to be used under your qualifications. No employees development programs. No (as far I as know) training budget for staff. Individualistic and competitive environment where teamwork behavior is not promoted: My manager secretly put me on competition with another colleague asking us to carried out the same task in order to compare us. 26 different information system. ( installing SAP starting July 2014). Which will lead to staff reduction.