The amount of meetings, PowerPoints and discussions on the survey results is crazy! Management wanting to know how we can make the results better and have "Fun" is beyond measure in Upstream. The managers are trying to be cheerleaders for "New" ideas but the base of it all is rotted with the evaluation system that they won't address it. We seem to be re-writing the survey results to get the answers we want and explain the actual results away.
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Can’t compete in the upstream paying 60% of market salary to petroleum engineers. They leave the minute they have enough experience to make 40% more.
I started to answer the survey but after reading the first few questions it was obvious they didn’t want to actually get data that mattered.
It was basically: “On a scale from Excellent to Outstanding, how do you think Senior Management is doing?”
In Global Projects, we've heard nothing about it. I think the response was about 17%?
No, Upstream is not the only group.
I don't know how much faith you can put in this survey when (in upstream for example) the response rate was less than 30%
We have committees, sub-committees and sub-sub-committees as directed by our highly paid senior management on this topic.....now we can all rest easy because this will solve the issues (not!). We even have a survey item being worked to NOT overwork things - it's gotten comical.
It comes off as insincere if they try to change their tune now.
Most of the supervisors I had have no personality and comes off as weird or toxic. I’m shocked that individuals with such lack of people skills is ever given people management responsibilities.
The brain-salad analysis was confusing to them.
The words 'Executive' and 'Guillotine' were very highly correlated.
More so than 'Profit' and 'Satisfaction' were correlated.
They are working on an implementation.
Might be fun to watch.
I work in EMIT, and all the Supervisors/managers in my area spent TWO WEEKS talking about this stuff. It’s not going to matter.
The survey was a complete farce, it’s the questions they didn’t ask that’s the most telling. Also, the fact they expect supervisors and managers to ‘fix’ the problems is even more of a joke. The problems stem from the top, either they are cruel, or they are clueless……
this is why I no longer answer surveys. If I do it is going to have to be 100% thumbs up so management doesn't get offended and demand to know who said what and why. Surveys are just another metric that is going to get manipulated to tell the story. Look how much we've improved when it is just that people were fed up and quit.