Wake Up-Does this sound familiar at Merck?

[anonymous]

Does this sound familiar at Merck?

Project looks promising and career minded people actively participate and ride the wave of success. Projects flounders or has low visibility with senior management. Same people run away rather than roll up their sleeves to help team solve problems.

Create a crisis and/or high visibility slick named goal, convince the Department VP to embrace it. Call it a success, use it to get promoted and high rating during annual review. Yet it did nothing important to improve rank and file employee lives or the business.

Look at your VPs and organizations and tell me this is not true. How can company thrive when people are more focussed on themselves and playing the game than doing what's best for the company? Some of the best at the game are people getting promoted.

Too many departments in Merck have a problem and no one is willing to speak up or those in power don’t want to recognize the problem and do something about it.

 

[anonymous]

Does this sound familiar at Merck?

Project looks promising and career minded people actively participate and ride the wave of success. Projects flounders or has low visibility with senior management. Same people run away rather than roll up their sleeves to help team solve problems.

Create a crisis and/or high visibility slick named goal, convince the Department VP to embrace it. Call it a success, use it to get promoted and high rating during annual review. Yet it did nothing important to improve rank and file employee lives or the business.

Look at your VPs and organizations and tell me this is not true. How can company thrive when people are more focussed on themselves and playing the game than doing what's best for the company? Some of the best at the game are people getting promoted.

Too many departments in Merck have a problem and no one is willing to speak up or those in power don’t want to recognize the problem and do something about it.

Yes, this is called...(drumroll please) Corporate America!

Granted, Merck is a shining example of the most dysfunctional. evil,
screwed up company, (in the drug business or any industry.)

 

[anonymous]

Very familiar.... Another go to move is to consistently assign plumb high visibility projects necessary for promotions to favorites to assure their promotions. Then penalize the other employees for taking initiative to create/ find better or similar assignments through gas lighting and destabilization techniques. The ultimate solution is then realized- a homogenous elite of chosen yes men where fear rules and creativity and self expression are eliminated.. power is maintained at all costs. You are on a 9 box grid and yes they are measuring your skull and using personality profiling and attributes such as voice pitch to determine your potential.

 

[anonymous]

Very familiar... another go to move is to consistently assign high visibility plum projects needed for promotions to favorites to assure their rise. Then penalize the other employees for taking initiative to attempt fruitlessly to get similar assignments via gas lighting and destabilization. What is realized is the ultimate solution of elite yes men where fear rules. Yes they use a 9 box grid, attributes like skull size, personality traits, and voice pitch to determine your potential...