Ingersoll-Rand Reviews

Pros

Ethical and tend to think strategically

Cons

big company that has to meet shareholder needs over long term strategy

Advice to Senior Management

continue to think strategically

Pros

pay is OK, benefits are OK, but still not up to par with peer group. work environment is OK, CEO, CIO and CFO are great.

Cons

Expectation that you sell your soul to the company. Driven to succeed, no matter the cost or collateral damage. Operations Leadeship is incompetent. Lot's of VP's and mis-direction, little focus on driving real change at that Sr. Level, more about the " perception of achieveing and meeting a metric" Took too long to clean up the problems in the resi solutions business. Missed 2 quarters earnings because of poor operational leadership. Supply Chain and Procurement is also joke. No leadeship or direction.

Advice to Senior Management

CEO, CFO, stop relying on outside consultants to tell you how to run your business! Money being flushed away. Too many Generals, not enough corporals and privates. The place is crawling with VP's, high salraies and grandious bonuses.

Pros

Salary, opportunities, advancement, employees are nice.

Cons

Corporate red tape, there isn't always transparency.

Advice to Senior Management

Work hard and become familiar with your environment.

Pros

good benefits, good products and services, good use of technology,
good company portfolio, world wide career opportunities

Cons

Large coporation with typical corporate issues. Sometimes they don't understand the needs of the business, they rely totally on numbers and not the products and employees

Pros

Great Products lines
Willing to invest in information technology
Solid salary and benefits
Opportunities to work in different business units

Cons

Have brought in huge number of directors and VPs who don't know the business well enough
Corporate HQ is the huge colossus, where political structures rule
Fast track advancement involves constantly moving employees into roles they are not qualified for

Advice to Senior Management

You have chosen many leaders that are literally hurting the corporation. Some do nothing while the competition just zooms on by.

Pros

Training is enough for employee

Cons

lack of passion within company

Advice to Senior Management

Stragety management and entitle more right to regional department mainly focus on NPD projects.

Pros

Good coworkers, holidays, and benefits.

Cons

They appear to be trying to outsource everything but core engineering departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't outsource the people that care about the company.

Pros

Good co workers, flexibility, good balance between work and life.
Diversity of products and people. Good Pay and okay benefits.

Cons

Poor senior Management they don't care about the employees.
Everything is being outsourced.

Pros

I worked at Ingersoll-Rand in Mocksville, NC. I would say the pro would to be to work at a different location like Davidson. The colleagues in Davidson were mature and professionals.

Cons

The downside to working in Mocksville, NC is the hostile and combative nature in which staff management leads the facility. If you speak up with another opinion, then you are surely questioning authority. The culture at the facility is extremely biased toward women and does not do much in the presence of complaints. "Good ole boy network" Supervisors are often patted on the back for intimidation and fear among the hourly and salary workers. Quantity is number one while Quality takes a backseat to hitting numbers.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop having meetings to discuss meetings when top management comes to visit. I assume this is to cover up and get on the same page; it is the same type of bad behavior that almost demolished Ford until Molally came on to represent a better standard in culture. If the plant manager would stop talking about all he has done and actually listen maybe he would see certain areas of opportunities. The promotion of a classism existence is present in the plant; there is only a "metaphorically speaking open door policy". If you speak up you are shunned and not looked at for promotion. If you are an agreeable manager/employee you are promoted. Sometimes it is those who are disagreeable that make the huge leaps in higher standards for Quality. Quality is just something to check off a list of to-do's for the facility and they do not take it with consideration to hitting numbers. I believe that this facility does not look at secondary metrics as a way of tracking against earned hours, but looks at scrap amounts that say nothing in a culture that promotes a "black belt mentality." No customer return metrics, no warranty metrics and the Quality Manager is a yes man that is sleeping behind the wheel. What organization would ever put the Quality Manager reporting directly to the Plant Manager??? Lean six sigma is a fad at the facility. I believe that staff management sees the lean, because they are production oriented and that is what lean is for, but what happened to the six sigma portion of the equation, you need both. I don't eve believe that the management truly knows Quality at all and cares nothing about it. The way that the facility churns the management through gives no support to sustaining good practices or accountability for when things are done to purely show numbers. FYI... stop taking the visual boards down when top management leaves and putting them back when they are there, most employees think RIEs are a joke and are losing confidence in a program that I am sure IR as a whole has invested quite a lot of money in. Also, what are the strategic plans? I was at the facility for 3 years and when strategic plans were dropped into our employee profiles, most managers had no understanding of how to align their employees with the vision/ strategic plans coming from corporate, most manager's didn't know how to implement strategic plans on a ground level and never sought opportunity to make any directive's known for front line management. It was a very confusing process of "guessing" what your manager wanted from you. I do believe that there are quite a few managers that could learn something from taking a communications class and maybe a few seminars on how to make productive employees. In a nut shell when supervisors are cussing and yelling at employees, belittling, it makes most people including myself feel as though the management represents people who are uneducated and unarticulated. So inarticulate that they know no other way but to be mean and aggressive.

Pros

Good benefits for the area, pay is acceptable for the area, good working hour flexibility, vacation time off is good for when you first start.

Cons

Poor communication to employees for changes. Constant restructuring and changes without adequate prior research leaving things a mess and people left to pick up the pieces.

Advice to Senior Management

Do the job of your employees on the lower levels for a day and you will lear a lot. :)