Sad descent of an educational institution into despotism, tyranny, and disorganization
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
It was nice to work with international, interesting, intelligent people. Unfortunately, the turnover rate is high and the best people tend to leave due to the atmosphere.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
1. Spread decision-making power by trusting employees to either a) be able to make small decisions on their own or b) give valuable input and participate in the decision-making processes that affect them.
2. Management needs to grow up, stop taking things so personally, and leave the boys' high school locker room mentality elsewhere, it has no place in an institute for higher learning.
3. Better hiring practices could be put into place so that employees are not constantly overworked or teams are not constantly half-staffed.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
The environment is quite difficult to function in; management takes many things personally, and acts like high schoolers in that certain colleagues are seen to be on "teams"; this is a pipe dream and prevents real work from getting accomplished.
One feels like one is walking on eggshells with management all the time. Management speaks poorly of colleagues in front of others, so one knows that if one screws up, one will be verbally demeaned in front of colleagues.
There is an intense amount of pressure and no one knows who to really trust.
Kommunikation
Top-down communication from the management simply doesn't happen in a timely or professional manner. Horizontal communication works well in most cases.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
As a result of the management "style", one has to work well with colleagues in order for basic tasks to be accomplished. This is challenging, however, due to the atmosphere and the distrust that has been created as a result of the management.
Work-Life-Balance
Work-Life-Balance is hard to achieve. Not only is there an immense workload and pressure, but one is also emotionally stressed from constantly trying to not ruffle any feathers in the management. Doing overtime on a daily basis is pretty much the norm. Employees are sometimes called in their private time (after working hours) by management over trivial matters.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
The management makes questionable decisions in a problematic way. Decisions are made by one person, and one person only, leading to extremely precarious and half-baked processes and procedures. Employees are made to feel that their input and experience are insignificant and that they themselves are easily replaceable.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
There are many stories of employees wishing to continue their education and being denied. The management seems to not value putting value into employees' education and improvement, which, at a university, is quite concerning to see.