It seems to me, according to some of my free estimates, that more than 90 percent of BH employees feel disconnected from leadership.
They lead from afar and as if they don’t even know about the real pulse of this company.
How did it come about that between the views of leaders and employees here has grown a worrisome chasm?
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Based on whether he or she is a “yes” person to superiors. Leadership chooses leaders they like that will protect them and side with them with little or no resistance. This leads to a toxic environment because the rest of the team sees it and can’t do anything about it. In an environment where there are frequent layoffs, this tends to happen. A Lot.
It’s astonishing how poor leader you can be in Baker and still get promoted. Our leaders is completely incompetent as a leader and the work that needs to be done. Everyone in the team knows it, yet by being self promoting his leader fails to see it and promote!? We don’t have any positive results to show to. What is it based on?
“ buy from the competitors “. HILARIOUSLY FUNNY! So are Chemicals now reaching out to competitors for technical advice on their own product line? Or is it just a supply chain issue? Any procurement professional worth their salt is going to be stress testing both SC and TS capabilities before pre-qualifying a company behaving like that on any major CMC, Especially one that isn’t covering its CEO & Chairman’s salary in its last quarters profits. (XOM managed to scrape by with 6.75 billion dollars in Q3)
yes it is short term in Chemicals since leaders have no vision at all. And now it is biting them back. This is the only company that has a problem in inventory. And their plan to cater their customers is to buy from the competitors. They have time for tea time but there is no time to plan for company's survival.
The Baker Hughes culture emphasizes shorterm financial goals, which naturally results in a culture of unethical behavior. Either a new CEO with real leadership goes in and cleans house or the company will be asking for forgiveness in huge lawsuits.
Why do you think GE and BH have been shoving Integrity down everyone’s throats? Because BH has been knowing of the unethical behavior for years.
U should push there hand and get a lawsuit going.
Chemicals is a place where prejudice, racism, se-ual misconduct and affairs can be commonplace. It’s like stepping into the 1950s with leadership’s favoritism and pretending it’s normal. Some day they will do a thorough cleaning of that place and remove the real toxic people that brought the place down. Those weak, unethical leaders. IYKYK
Most unethical Chemicals Technology company so far
Only 90%? More like 99.9%
Happened in 2017 in a tent at Rankin Rd... to roaring applause.
Chemicals is the worst. A muppet is a people leader there.
Centralisation is part of the issue. Groups like Finance and HR have been centralised in hubs in the likes of Kuala Lumpur and are disconnected from operations and staff the rest of the world. This is penny pinching exercise by the company, the finance organisation that existed in Aberdeen and Dubai was more effective than KL but KL was cheap so all the work went there.
These faceless organisations don’t connect with the business and create a sense of us and them. Outsourcing of work only adds to this and leads to work going to people with no vested interest in things being done well, all that matters is boxes are ticked and metrics are achieved.
The ex leader BOD. Say no more !
Your having a joke it’s filled with muppets