Company seeking Identity - Anonymous employee Oticon Employee Review

The company has recently gone through leadership change and is clearly struggling to decide what kind of company it wants to be. It seems to be trying to be like the big pharma and medical device companies but still trying to maintain a warmer atmosphere that had defined it for decades. It is not doing a very good job at achieving those ends. The company has clearly turned in the direction of micromanagement and constant meetings and policies and paperwork. It seems like a lot of the trust that leadership used to have in the skills and good judgment of professional employees has been replaced by rigid accountability standards that feel like they miss the mark. There are few people in upper management with any experience in this industry and that naivety shows through. What has developed throughout this change is a middle management class that seem to be spending a lot of time managing up instead of acting as leaders. The micromanagement culture that has been instituted from the highest levels of the company has created a middle management class that seems to be far more concerned with protection and advancement of their own careers and far less about true mentorship. There is far more of a feeling of trying to stay off the radar of upper management than truly doing good work for the sake of the company. This used to be a company that people truly felt had a clear mission and employees were happy to be part of that. Now the feeling is more about self-promotion. And that feeling of self-promotion seems to come from the very top of the company.