Inconsistent Management & Unneccessary Focus on Short-Term Growth - Anonymous employee Eastman Employee Review

The compensation and rating system at Eastman is not great. Employee compensation is not reflective of job responsibility increases and focuses mostly on "years of experience," with some differentiation based on performance. Therefore, there is high likelihood of being moved from one job to another within the company and being told that it is a lateral move, despite the fact that the amount of responsibility and effort required to meet performance goals greatly increase. Management has no answer to the question as to why there is no difference in compensation in this regard. This type of management would tend to make working hard for a company that doesn't appropriately reward it's employees exhausting and frustrating. Additionally, there has been a large focus on large cost decreases within the company. The CEO has acknowledged the squeeze coming from investors on the need to maintain large single-digit growth. Some departments are feeling the pressures of being asked to maintain or even increase throughput, while reducing budget available to make improvements or repairs. This ends up leaving gaps that could significantly impact the company from a financial standpoint in the longer-term.