People don't leave companies they leave managers - Employer Relations Specialist Sutter Health Employee Review

2.0
29 Apr 2019
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Pros

Sutter Health the organization itself is a pretty great company to work for, I was proud to be an employee of Sutter Health. They had great benefits and good pay.

Cons

There is a lot of hierarchy in their management structure which culturally created a peeking order. Within my department, Employer Relations, employees where not able to speak freely without repercussions nor were their ideas and feedback welcomed even though they said it was. It was clear that was just something they knew they were supposed to say. Expectations did not match the resources given to do the job successfully. I quickly was made to feel that I just didn't matter. When I started my position with Sutter I was so very excited and planned to one day retire with the organization but unfortunately that was sucked out of me and I had to leave. It was very sad.

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Pros

Leadership trainings, conferences, educational opportunities, Senior leadership seems to respond to employee feedback, Great organizational transparency and clarity around goals and direction, Front-line leadership receiving recognition more often, Fair (not amazing) compensation and benefits overall, Organization seems to be healthy and growing which is encouraging for job security and retention.

Cons

Unsustainable front-line leadership expectations, responsibilities, and tasks without providing support from supervisors or assistant managers specifically in San Francisco campuses, High burnout risk among front-line leaders which is continuing to increase, Growing list of contradicting or conflicting priorities. Patient experience scores have improved greatly in SF but patient quality/safety and employee satisfaction has become the apparent cost of that, Very unreasonable span of control for front-line leaders, i.e. way too many direct reports, Meeting metrics and KPIs at all costs is the message being received. Front-line leaders are left scrambling to reach the data points (regardless of the methods), to get there. In other words, we might be meeting the metrics and KPIs on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the real purpose or reason behind those metrics is being performed. We’re just desperate to keep our jobs, The leadership culture in the last 6-9 months has shifted towards motivation through fear. Fear of losing our jobs or bonuses rather than motivation by providing actual daily support in doing our jobs and genuine concern and encouragement to succeed.

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