Terrible management, low-level teamplay, ancient process-handling and tools.
Despite the size and past of the company the management is very old-fashioned, overpaid and has no clue about how to lead a company in the XXI. century.
Maybe Haworth US is a powerful and modern company, but Haworth EU works like a mid-age farm: leaders are just pulling the milk from the cows (current market position and employees) and they don't care if they kill the sources of their success. In the other hand the company is still able to make growth and big money - I don't know how because products are not outstanding, just "simply good".
Employees are unmotivated, devaluated. Some of them are silo-thinkers.
Internal processes are very bad. Teams in different departments and locations don't really talk to each other, often don't even know how the company structure looks like. Managers don't make efforts to change it, they rather do the "divide and conquer" tactics (or rather they don't even know that someting is missing). No good plans, no workflows, no development.
It's very typical that Haworth has money to buy really expensive and powerful computers for the employees but the operation system's security settings are so strict that these computers works like a low- or middle-level one. Not even the software engineers has the authorization to simply install things on their computers.
Motivating is also a weak side of the company. Managers are well-paid, but outstanding employees don't receive an extra bonus or a pay raise, they just get a mumbo jumbo like a trip or an extra 50$ per month.
