Senior management is flawed and lacks integrity, transparency, and cannot innovate. - Instructional Designer Wiley Employee Review

1.0
23 Apr 2017
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Pros

Very smart colleagues. I love the people I work with at my my department and enjoy the community events. But a company is not just about events and fun days. Having a sundae bar is not a replacement for actually investing in your employees and giving them things like professional development. My immediate manager/manager above is great. However, they they have little power to do much. Beyond that, it's is a sea of individuals with little integrity and ability to lead. Wiley is governed by people of very little integrity, poor leadership skills, and people who lead in a reactionary way without communicating their true intentions.

Cons

Cheapest employer I have ever worked for. And I have worked for nonprofits. Wiley will not reimburse for software that I need to do my job. The best people are overloaded with work. The mediocre workers aren't. They are trying to be innovative but they will never succeed in being innovative. The key to being innovative is by actually caring about your people and investing in them and giving time to innovative. Oh, and give them tools to innovative. Not turning everything into some productivity/efficiency circus. Also hiring people who can create things that are innovative. Wiley will never say no to the requests of the partner schools. If you are ok in this set up (without the tools, resources, and people to the job), you'll like it here.

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