Stewart Enterprises – “Unless you are in the club, opportunities are limited”

Pros

- the people are pretty decent
- casual and relaxed work environment
- flexible schedule
- after Katrina, company paid salaries of displaced employees for a full month
- great opportunities for training, conferences

Cons

- favoritism in regards to promotions and salaries
- gross inequities in salaries paid for similar positions
- newer employees paid market whilst existing employees stuck at the salaries they were hired in under
- some members of senior management grossly unqualified, cogs in the wheel, detrimental to progress

Advice to Senior Management

Pay people what they are worth. Several long-standing employees have left the Information Systems department at corporate over the past few years because management refuses to promote or pay fairly-these are people who were invested in Stewart and wanted to stay, wanted to see Stewart succeed-Stewart let them walk out the door and then hired in people with less experience and knowledge of the company at significantly higher rates. The employees know more about each others salaries than you think....