Manulife Financial Reviews

Pros

Competitive Pay,
Great Benefits
Great co-workers (who helps out)

Cons

Training takes 5 weeks
Rated based on customer survey that may not be really accurate

Advice to Senior Management

Management is good overall

Pros

flexibility, culture and treatment of employees

Cons

the salaries are not competitive

Pros

- Multiple opportunities to grow within the corporation
- Competent senior management

Cons

- Lack of feedback and leadership skills of the middle-level management

Advice to Senior Management

- Choose carefully the future Manulife leaders

Pros

- Work was interesting and varied

Cons

- Manager was mostly located in Waterloo, and then on sick leave.

Pros

Global company, diverse busineses. High performance standards,

Cons

Too siloed. Should encourage more collaboration

Advice to Senior Management

Need more collaboration and innovation. Listen to employees more. Senior mgt doesn't have all the answers.

Pros

- colleagues are intellegent, well educated and committed to excellence on the job
- younger generation have innovative ideas to help turn the company around

Cons

- too beurocratic
- distribution systems are based on traditional channels- need to develop new ways of doing business
- too cost focussed
- no consistent in flexibile work arrangements
- no employee advocates/voice within the company
- the leadership team responsible for poor business decisions with long term consequences to our company profitability remain employed.

Advice to Senior Management

- watch the movie "Too Big to Fail"
- respect the performance contributions of your employees
- hire executives with strong leadership skills and reward them for demonstrating this effectively on the job- HR should be aggressively focussing on making that happen if they want to keep and hire the best.

Pros

Challenging job. Great company to learn.

Cons

Evolution is somewhat limited within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

try to hire more experienced employees.

Pros

They provide paid education that is related to my work. The compensation is not bad for what I do.

Cons

It's hard to get promoted even when you exceed expectations. They expect higher quantity of work done and cut our breaks to 10 minutes morning and afternoons. I feel like they want us to quit and get cheaper contract employees.

Advice to Senior Management

If we perform well, give us a promotion. All the other departments recognize their employees but our department is so stingy with promotions. I used stay after work to finish my work as I wanted my company to do well. Nowadays, I leave right at the end of my schedule and could care less if I have more work piled up. The Call Centre wants us to take more calls yet they don't give us time to work on the after call work unless it's not busy...it's stressful and unfair.

Pros

Great work/family life balance. Feel good about the financial future of the company. Ideals and goals of the company are in keeping with my own in regards to work.

Cons

some favourtism towards staff that are more oriented to socializing as opposed to work performance.

Pros

some flexibility
easy job
they try to establish work/life balance (still needs some work)

Cons

no recognition
no room for advancement unless you know someone
management seems to pick flavor of the month
benefits not competitive
do like to hear real feedback, just want you to agree with their opinion
management teams based on Yes men

Advice to Senior Management

listen to employees
promote based on merit and skill set
if you pay to do a survey implement the results
when people quit fill their positions, don't just roll over workloads