Say all the right things, don't deliver - Department Manager IKEA Employee Review

2.0
17 July 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Co-workers are great, work hard, work as a team. Cheap lunches or dinners. The culture and values are talked about frequently and are brilliant ones to have. Store manager is very enthusiastic

Cons

Expect you to travel all over the country for regular meetings, steering group keep things hidden from middle management, steering have little experience in their own roles to support others, constantly told how to lead but it isn't applicable to next level up who have no time for you. Expected to train in your own time and not be paid for it. Even now the steering team are still not ready for their roles, particularly sales and logistics where both functions are suffering due to high management. Sadly they are unapproachable

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Management The design can be really controlled You have to get approval from so many people Manager is micro managing

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