Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft 

mbH

Unternehmenskultur

Abysmal. All top performers are frustrated and overworked. While Leadership is using management buzz-words and don‘t know, don’t care or are simple not capaple to understand issues, problems or even how our business works. Instead of supporting the front line with tools and manpower, there is a hiring and firing of leadership positions. There’s an issue, something not working? Hire a new manager and blame him if it is not solved. Many of us stopped remembering the names of senior leadership as they come and go like the four seasons.

Detached from reality. Internal communications tries to uphold a good internal image with success stories and glossy presentions. For the average employee this is like mockery, as the reality is very different.

Deteriorating. This was outstanding a couple years back. Now everybody is helpless and tries to preserve his or her health and sanity. Which leads to passivity, apathy and inactivity.

After lay offs and restructuring, without established processes and tools, expectation to do more and more is rising every year. People silently quit and just don‘t care anymore. Still, many work really hard to make it work.

One should be self aware that without explicit rejection, the firm will take everything from you. There is no protection from the firm or any attemps to ease the situation for many colleagues. Just pressure.

Directs ok. The problem begins with the area heads. Most of the former ones are gone, replaced by pushy managers who desperately try to oblige and please what the C Level comes up with.
The C-suite itself is overstaffed (9…wait, one just left so it is 8!). Personally I believe that only half are actually providing a benefit for the firm (CEO, COO, CRO and CTO). Also having the impression that even less actually know what exactly we are doing and delivering.

Management lost trust, support and loyalty from the average employee long time ago.

There is a lot of complex work and projects. If you expect to make a change, maybe you can, most likely not. Please do not expect any appreciation for your work though, this is reserved for sales and of course the leadership.