None of the managers at HON have leadership skills. They are rude, disrespectful, and, most importantly, unqualified. Trying to talk to them and trying to get your point across in most cases feels like talking to a wall. I'm sure there are a few exceptions but they only prove the rule.
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lol - I've listened to HSE VP talk 'technically' and she has said things which are astonishingly wrong (100% wrong - even a graduate would know wrong) - probably should employ a HSE VP who has worked in HSE?
lol - I've listened to HSE VP talk 'technically' and she has said things which are astonishingly wrong (100% wrong) - probably should employ a HSE VP who has worked in HSE?
I work in ISC. Managers are there to push, nothing else. Well maybe to make sure no one gets rated too high. Managers I work around are champions at dodging bullets, not getting involved, and passing the buck - Don't get blamed is the goal.
@OP is clueless. I have worked with many great leaders at Honeywell. Sadly or maybe appropriately they outgrew Honeywell and moved on to lead other great companies like Lockheed Martin. (Bob, when I knew him in the 90s). Brilliance attracts brilliance. If you want to work for great leaders your only reliable option is to be one.
I prefer to surround myself with lazy beer drinking sw engineers but that is me. A drunk boss is a happy boss.
In over a decade, I've never met a good VP... because you don't get to be a Honeywell VP without selling your soul and fu*#ing over as many people as possible. I've met one good director and he was tossed in the layoff of July 2020. I've had mostly good first level managers. Only two are completely useless. The way to get rid of it is to get rid of the director level and up. And you know what chances there are of that happening.
Can't generalize. There are many good managers (qualified), good directors, VP's, etc.
And there are rotten ones.. sadly the higher you go, the more unqualified ones are on top making braindead decisions. It is case to case basis. But start with the CEO/s that just care about $$$ and not accountable to anyone.
In all actuality, most of the lower level management are good people, that actually can lead good people. The true problem is their subordinates that throw tantrums and blame management, when they get called out on not doing their job (correctly).
Most of their jobs are entirely useless and they contribute nothing. What do they do? Tell people to do the jobs they are already doing, but faster? They are the true parasites. They are paid large sums of money yet they do nothing at all.
I have excellent managers in our department. The problem is terrible corporate leadership.
Not my experience.
Across the board i find people to be generally good and problems to arise from honeywell culture, beauracracy, values, and top level product vision.
Those things are nearly impossible to change in a company.