Kimberly-Clark reviews

To few people for too many tasks. There's a line between lean and anorexic. KC has crossed it. Horrendous computer-based systems for day-to-day work that have no IT support. Employees are expected to find their own way with SAP interfaces that are inscrutable. Machiavellian forced employee ranking review system. Top management that whimsically changes our "focus" depending on the flavor-of-the-day mission/positioning that our overpriced consultants recommend. In a word, they are singularly unimaginative. Mediocre pay, no bonuses, no incentive. "Please the Street" mentality puts employees in second (or third..or fourth...)place Risk averse culture, where what gets done is not near as important as how it gets done.

Unfair evaluation system - Started out putting people in a bell shaped curve for performance. That was OK. Then got rid of the bottom - OK and redistributed the "keepers" who are a truncated distribution of performance levels into a forced bell shaped curve. That meant if you looked crosseyed at someone you were lowered in the next review because what else did they have to go on - "somebody has to be a three". Managers cannot manage people. Middle managers were promoted based on their ability to do the work rather than manage the work. As a result managers are very bad at evaluating people fairly and distributing the work to those who have the ability to do it. Bias for lauches not development