ADM Reviews

Pros

Part of successfull link between farm and dinner table

Cons

Bottom line production company adm

Advice to Senior Management

Real people work at adm

Pros

Sr. mgmt was always straightforward
Freedom to do your job within the best of you ability
Frequent coaching as opposed to straight discipline

Cons

Time off wasn't approved easily
Management was chummy with the employees too much at times.
Everybody wasn't made to tow the line fairly

Advice to Senior Management

Be sure when you put a person in a leadership position and you know they are underperforming, give them guidance rather than a blind eye. It was the single most morale lowering thing about the job.

Pros

Job security (but this is changing)
Financial stability
Addressing gender and ethnic percentages
Work and personal life balance (but this really depends on your manager, and is not a company wide mandate).

Cons

A very autocratic management style
Has a mentality of the ends justifies the means
Retirement benefits are poor (but should this be a concern anymore?)
No bonuses unless you are in management (what does this say about valuing all of your personnel)
A lot of unwritten rules, and clicky

Advice to Senior Management

The very top level of leadership needs to communicate with the folks down below - skipping around upper and mid-management (which is filtering things).

Pros

conservative approach to business decisions
laid back office environment
flexible work/life balance

Cons

corporate office location
management plays favorites
remedial job assignments
way behind on technology and takes forever to implement new ideas

Advice to Senior Management

move the office to a better location (Chicago)

Pros

- Will keep you busy
- You will learn a lot.
- You will get a lot of responsibility.

Cons

- Less progressive.
- Menial tasks.
- Management that falters.

Advice to Senior Management

Come up with a good plan and stick to it. ADM has a lot of potential. It is quite successful, but not a full grown business like many around it.

Pros

Many international opportunities
Growth opportunities are there.
Work is interesting and keeps the day going by quickly.

Cons

Work/life balance leaves much to be desired, especially for lower positions.
Growth opportunities limited to Corporate office location.

Advice to Senior Management

Equal opportunities for supervisors, managers and senior positions.

Pros

Benefits appear to be highly competitive for companies in this league but pay scale leans toward the low side. A very good place for the inexperienced....looks good on your resume.

Cons

Lower management is inexperienced. Micromanaging and "dressing down" are the tools used if you don't fall in with their expectations which sorely lack in team building and employee satisfaction. A very robotic atmosphere. Appears to be the same within the accounting department. Sales and lab personnel seem satisfied.

Advice to Senior Management

Training courses for employees in positions of training. It's inappropriate to hear your supervisor speak about other employees she "hates" and her assistant belittling people because she feels the power to do so. It's unproductive.

Pros

Good benefits
Support staff professional growth

Cons

Company policies are not enforced resulting to some of the employees taking advantage of the time and resources that are available to them which translate to the company losing.

Advice to Senior Management

They have to discipline people whom they found have already been incompetent and are liabilities to the company.

Pros

Good place to work. Stable Company. Almost impossible to get fired as long as you show up. but not really rewarded for discretionary performance. High end workers and supervisors get same treatment/performance evaluations as people that only meet expectations.

Cons

Not really rewarded for discretionary performance. High end workers and supervisors get same treatment/performance evaluations as people that only meet expectations.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to really reward people for going above and beyond...then maybe more people will put in more than the minimum requirements.

Pros

Exciting work environment, great benefits and pay, friendly staff, beautiful brand new office with a view of the whole city.

Cons

Heavy Red tape, slow growth, since employees stay for over 15 yrs.

Advice to Senior Management

Embrace chance and innovation.