Johnson Controls Reviews

Pros

Good salary,benefits and advancement opportunities.

Cons

Long hours and poor upper management.

Pros

Very stable company that consistently grows, good coworkers (for the most part).

Cons

Compensation is about average, and it's still up tight corporate life.

Advice to Senior Management

Model the company after some of the newer "DotCom" companies.

Pros

Very flexible schedule with little stress and has great benefits. The company pays for many expenses that you would have to pay for yourself during business travel.

Cons

Some unnecessary travel to meet business clients in person and some senior members can be hard to contact through e-mail or phone

Advice to Senior Management

If you would like an employee to meet a client, don't send them around the world, just give the employee their e-mail address.

Pros

Empowered
Accountable
Add value to the bottom line
Expectation to be innovative in your job
Continue to drive things forward - don't wait to be told
Lots of opportunity
True Global company

Cons

Career paths - not defined, but lots of opportunities
Mentorship program

Advice to Senior Management

I don't see retention as a big issue, but JCI does so many good things I see opportunity to focus in on retention from an employee satisfaction standpoint.

Pros

A nice, calm and supportive working environment with open for help peers and managers.

Cons

Working in a low cost country office makes you loose your motivation quickly when you occupy the same position available in another country office but you dont share the same salary level.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop changing the internal structure so often. Try to comply to the internationally accepted structures for big companies and let the emplyees know their current place and let them plan their career growth.

Pros

Excellent Pay
Great Benefits
You are surrounded by some the best people in the industry
Your voice and opinions are heard
Opportunities can be limitless

Cons

Work hours can be unpredictable at times
Can require out of town travel at times
Lots of corporate red tape
Certian areas lack support

Advice to Senior Management

Smaller accounts deserve the same focus as your large accounts
There needs to be more focus on your Building Efficiencies Facility Managment Groups

Pros

Global company
Corporate experience
Ethos and respect
Strong leaders

Cons

Compensation and grade structure are rigid. Should be slighlty less rigid to allow for rising stars to progress through the company quicker.
Local management not at the same level as senior management, large gap between the two levels
Brand needs to be developed more, "one of the largest unknown companies in the world"

Advice to Senior Management

Develop young leaders and rising stars

Pros

Flexible work hours, competitive wages, job security have been a key positive aspects that I have experienced with JCI. I think that their corporate values are great and something that a person could buy in to and be a part of.

Cons

Some of the corporate values get lost in translation in the branches of the company. Senior leadership doesn't seem to invest enough of themselves into creating a vision that is translated into a strategy. This makes for inconsistent product offering and disgruntled employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to invest at an appropriate level. Depending on how high up the food chain a manager is they have a responsibility in translating the JCI vision into a successful, strategic plan to delver. Unfortunately, it seems that the vision of our senior most staff is not necessarily translated appropriately into the outer limbs of the business.

Pros

COEE India is an outright " Boss decides everything " sort of a company . People are fooled by the reviews of JCI and COEE is a sort of a BPO to do cheaper worker for JCI .

Pros

Excellent reviews if you can please your boss.
Excellent benefits as it is a subsidiary of JCI

Cons

Extended working hours everyday
Very low pay
Awful office environment

Advice to Senior Management

Please conduct an audit of COEE and speak to the employees to speak the truth , only then will you realize the mess it is in

Pros

Total benefits package is very good--worked with many fantastic "team" people.

Cons

old school management, lean manufacturing sometimes is too lean.