Thomas & Betts Reviews

Pros

New product introduction processes are quite good
people will respect you overall
product line is interesting from the engineering point of view

Cons

Communication between manager and team is very poor
there are safety and health issues inside the plant ( poor machine operations regarding safety, old installations, noise levels inside offices are hihg)
very little opportunity to grow

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication with team, conduct effective reviews
Improve safety and health in the Mexico plant

Pros

you will gain good experience with larger wire.

Cons

management is rotten, pay sucks, very bad attendence policy

Advice to Senior Management

close the doors FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pros

It is a big company, working with many softwares and theoretical you have the opportunitinty to use them. They are suppliers for many big companies.

Cons

It is very stressful. Any change is avoided. If you do not have experiece they do not give support. many informations which you need are keept secret, They
are not trustfull.

Advice to Senior Management

Some departaments are useless. They keep too many people doing things without sens when they kan simplify the sob reducting the errors.

Pros

benefits are better then most jobs, the work is full time, and people are mostly respected there. they will keep their current labor there unless the said employee is causing major problems.

Cons

They don't consider any ideas unless they are cost free, they have no consideration for the personal needs of their employees unless it also benefits the company.

Advice to Senior Management

If someone comes up with an idea, instead of saying its yours, let them get the credit. Give people positive affirmation when they do something well. Actually consider what people have to say instead of dismissing it.

Pros

they are alwy hiring temps you can get a job there to last you until you find a real job

Cons

no kind of accountability to the full time employees they use the tmps to their advantage

Advice to Senior Management

have someone who can do the job properly train new employees. NOT someone who just started themselves.

Pros

Freiendly mood, a good wage, good, people, good building, good restaurent,

fare treatment, pesonality contrubute to your feeling of job

Cons

terrible managersome of the research that suggests that dispoition contributes to job satisfaction is fascinating although each of these studis

Advice to Senior Management

no ideathe pircutre we have panted so far of the detrminants of job satisfaction has been mostly one of cal

Pros

The company offers a generous and competitive compensation package. Middle management and sales staff are generally excellent. R&D for product development is outstanding, and the company has maintained a strong reputation for the quality of the products it manufacturers, particularly in comparison to competitors' products.

Cons

There is a strong sense within the company that upper management is not concerned with the welfare of employees --- that their primary concern is stock value.

Also, in the last three years in particular, there has been a lack of direction and communication from upper management, and a general consensus that don't seem to have a concrete plan of action with respect to organization within the company and the marketing strategy. Instead, they seem to just try different things and hope something will work. They waste a lot of resources trying things that ultimately do not work, and this creates frustration within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to management would be that they should spend more time focusing on your human resources, and what impact decisions have on employee loyalty, morale, and dedication. Otherwise, once the job market and economy improves, many employees are liable to leave. I would also advise management to direct more attention to training and development of employees. "T&B University" used to be a wonderful resource for training and development, but it is hardly used anymore.

Pros

It was a fair and decent place to work. Many lower managers were great.

Cons

Upper Managment tended to do the bare minimum.

Advice to Senior Management

Work hard and your employees will respect you more.

Pros

It's a job for what it's worth

Cons

lack of comucation from management.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Highly structured environment with a solid roadmap to the future. Plenty of personal and professional growth opportunity in the form of additional training through seminars and on-site education. Very good compensation package if you are part of the management incentive program. Solid benefits including both a 401(k) and a retirement plan. Tremendous product knowledge at the operating facilities.

Cons

Some ivory tower syndrome, i.e., "everybody at the corporate headquarters is more competent then employees in field locations". Few promotional opportunities in the field, must move to Memphis to move up. In some divisions senior management has little or no operational experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Institute a supervisor rating program.