Not taking about the Geos, but WHQ. Why does Nike continue to support so many "upper management" layers of VPs and Sr. Directors who are highly compensated yet unqualified to truly lead this organization? Why do they just create their own circles where no one else is allowed? Why is it when they see someone, like a Director, who is smarter than all of them combined, they drive that person out? How the f— is this allowed? What is the purpose of Nike HR and especially ER?
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My guess for this layoff is that majority will be the L and U bands. Sr Mgmt will be safe; they just need to sacrifice someone and usually it is the downline that are made the sacrificial lambs. It is time for JD to look at his sr management and see with unbiased eyes. I had a new boss who is on board for 2 years already - no strategies, no direction and best of all, no org chart! Ever heard of a sr management on board for 2 years already and yet doesn't even have an org chart????
To be fair a lot of Dir & Sr Dir aren’t truly the problems, it goes higher than that. I was caught up in the last layoffs 2 yrs ago. Myself and my Sr Dir were let go to retain a VP who was being demoted to a Sr Dir. Now this was said VP’s second demotion yet for some reason the company wanted to keep this person around. If this person was not capable in these positions why keep him around? This has gone on for multiple years.
I had 2 problem employees during my decade there. I was not allowed to fire either of them and was repeatedly encouraged to help them find a position in a different department. HR even warned me that putting them on an action plan looked negatively upon myself as a leader. To this day I don’t see how that helps anyone.
@2niy+15FtiMIJ - yes !!! If you bring a problem to HR they think you are the problem !!!!!! HR is Such a trashy function . Fake and pretentious!
- J , K.M , C.H are the somecif the senior directors in HR who should GO. Stupid managers in HR like M.D, D.B who have no idea of the work should have been shown the door during the 2017 CDO. Nike HR = you grow if you ki** a–. Period.
the chronical problem of nike is that they promote people that are incompetent and those incompetent people hire incompetent people bellow them and then politics kick in . If you are talented and smarter then the ones at the top they get rid of you because people at the top can manipulate and state no good. In large organization like Nike easy to do because 69,000 employees and you can play this game for long time in organization less then 100 they would get you out for politics because you cannot hide your work behind other people. HR at Nike is absolute they are big part of the problem because they are incompetent we had seen this in examples of women not being promoted ....etc..
HR at Nike if you come with the problem they think you are the one with the problem...
No apparel company has increased sales during Covid, and what I imagine is your favorite brand (UA) could go bankrupt. Nike has the right consumers, it just treats its employees like pawns.
Nike sounds like a horrible company. Retail sales are still making money during Covid-19 for many companies so maybe not the only reasons for losses. Top heavy closed minded leaders worried about themselves and the PC culture have reduced your customer base. Nike doesn't support the flag and WE stopped supporting Nike. When you take an idealized stand and draw a line then you lose customers. I would be embarrassed to wear anything with a Nike logo. Wish I could say that I feel bad for you. Your silence created your bed. Now lay in it.
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No, they have not. That requires a true leadership, foresight, decency and love for others. Will not happen and that is why they are saying the layoffs are not because of the $790M loss but it is strategic concentration on digital business - Direct to Consumers. We all know that is not the truth.
Have execs taken pay cuts yet?
@lgb+15FtiMIJ what does wake up mean in this context? Ignore the problem? Put up with it? Support it? or maybe simply shut up about it? Maybe you should consider waking up and finally decide to say or do something about? That will require a bit of courage though, which clearly cowards do not possess.
@wvd+15FtiMIJ with defeated mentality such as yours and the refusal to acknowledge systematic problems such as this one and discrimination of all types, is part of the problem. Shame!
Look how we treated female athletes - Kara Goucher, Allyson Felix, Mary Cain, etc. Don’t think you will be treated better. Wake up.
I've had similar conversations with E+ people and the response is always the same: it is what it is, nothing we can do about it. Very sad. Everyone can see what's wrong but no one dares to bring it up in public, people don't want to risk getting fired and if you are targeted they can find a million reasons to get rid of you
That is a great question. I do not have answers, of course. However, I can share that it is a rotten culture with many truly bad people who only care about themselves and their paychecks. It will not be too long before many of the employees really flip out and just stop working. Still, there are so many kiss-a– employees with their noses burrier so far up the Sr. Directors and VPs asses, it is embarrassing. I am f—ing leaving this sh– show.
There will be no "walkout". People are afraid to lose their jobs so no motivation to speak out. Those who do are terminated, ER looks out for the people in the club and for the company, if you rock the boat you will be forced out. If you try to take legal action they will bring the weight of its legal team down on you to suppress any dissenters. It is a totalitarian corporate culture where people don't speak up for themselves and those who have different opinions that is not the same as the party's will be whisked away. BTW those "anonymous" surveys are not always anonymous so people parrot what the leaders want to hear
What, exactly, does a walk-out accomplish? Nike can hire and fire as they please, this is corporate America. People who work there know what they’re signing up for. For employees, the frustrating thing has to be the cadence of these reorgs, which are coming much more frequently than they should.