Fresh new leadership but existing culture needs to change - Anonymous employee ABB Employee Review

2.0
Apr 24, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Large international company with terrific career opportunities for upwardly mobile individuals and leaders This building has several US Utility Industry-recognized subject matter experts in high voltage transmission equipment New leadership has fresh ideas of how to turn around ABB's high voltage business challenges with quality and customer focus

Cons

The new leadership is refreshing but the rank-and-file white collar work force still has a predominantly "not my job, not my problem" attitude. There is a deeply embedded culture of willful helplessness, and a tolerance for mediocrity There is an alarming lack of digitalization of internal work processes, and a lack of automation for even the most basic workflow tasks. Productivity and quality suffers due to multiple manual processes and disconnected systems. This is very disappointing, considering ABB's market reputation for leading-edge technology.

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