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[vicarz]

Text excerpts (questions omitted since IB lazE):

Morale is very low, making it hard to maintain employees - most departments are bleeding out the best staff. No one is addressing the problems, or is even aware. The turnover is a symptom but even the symptom of the disease is not being treated!

Positions are pre-selected, and the best candidates are consistently not selected.

No one seems to care about employee morale, rather the group is run by fear of punishment and more work reporting on work-progress than actually performing the work in question.

Candidates are preselected consistently, with friendship and cliques being the road to the top of the organization. It seems worse the higher you go.

Preselection is not a great strategy but it seems to be the planning key. There is also a race to see who can spend the most hours off the clock working - a race to the bottom of life-work mesh. The loser wins the job?

Employees are streaming out of the agency and no one seems to care. Morale is horrid and no one seems to care or even notice.

Flexitime is actively discouraged. It is on rare occasions given lip service, but no one is actually on it. It is treated as a reward for performance, and when granted it is with the expectation that you will produce more than you would in the building.

It takes ages for hires to take place, and the annoying KSAs discourage many from applying.

Rewards are only given out to clique members, and do not seem to come up for our hardest working team members. Management gives themselves any available bonus (or so it seems).

Recognition is only given to management, particularly the top who is never weary of self-back-patting. Employees are expected to be devoted loyalists, yet are never given a reason to give their loyalty other than fear.

Any activity outside of work is almost discouraged. Life friendly programs are discouraged, and you are expected to drop everything for any work priority - and the priority at work is usually just a check box on some manager's performance appraisal rather than something that might possibly effect the public.

Employee conflict is actually encouraged, if not just tolerated. The organization seems to use conflict in a "divide and conquer" approach to preventing disheartened employees from voicing their opinions.

The organization is being run by a union-buster, who clearly wants to abuse the union rather than work in any form of partnership.

Grievances are handled by the same people that take action at the top, and at the bottom are only given cursory review. The organization is clearly on a campaign to shut the union down entirely.

Training is not a priority to management, although it is common for the managers to go to training. The top people seem to always be training.

Leadership is traded amongst clique members, rather than by merit. Dare to disagree once and I suspect those managers that voiced alternative opinions would no longer receive training or be on the career track.

The focus is on a unified front, right or wrong, with no interest in effective leadership practices.

Ruling by fear is the current administration's philosophy, with some old-boy networking mixed in.

(perf apps) I do not feel they are used to do anything but bend the rules to fit the general rating scheme already in the head of the supervisors. The organizational objectives do not often meet the particular jobs, and the squeezing of the things into that format just leads to even more vague standards - no wonder the sup's ballpark them.

This is the first time my opinion has been requested. Someone should view the personnel demographics, review selection decisions, and recognize a problem - then conduct surveys. I'm not sure why this is being taken - to give another manager a star, to prep us for a removal of the grade system and potentially make things even worse, or is this a genuine concern for our feelings? If surveys are given out and no feedback / change follows, morale will sink even lower and the revolving door of employee turnover will just spin faster (at taxpayer expense).

Comments

[sparklypoof.livejournal.com]

well put.

[cweaselle.livejournal.com]

Gee, you must work for every boss I've ever worked for. :)

[vicar.livejournal.com]

It's actually more complex - I love my boss on paper, but the new supervisor is a twat. Everyone above my boss is socially and managerially inept, but not horrifically so...but the guy in charge of the whole place is a stark raving ass. The only reward you get working for him is to be good enough not to get yelled at and belittled for a longer period of time than your peers. Really motivating.

[cweaselle.livejournal.com]

I know. I was just sayin'.