- Egos!! Serious Egos!.. Flexing your style and consultation is standard in any industry (expected) But bending over backwards for everyone is a serious reality at International SOS. Let specialists focus on their job more and less on trying to pander to everyone's idiotic egotistical demands.
- Racist if you are not Asian, French or South African. And frequently told so! (Particularly if you are not Asian)
- Homophobic through avoidance. In 2 years non of the senior leadership team enquired about personal relationships (a question often posed to many heterosexual peers)
- Bully culture, where those with no real position but have longevity are allowed to cause mayhem and upset without personal consequence.
- Non supportive network in area of specialism!
- Non feedback other than fault finding. Fault finding is deep seeded in the organisations DNA.. This helps case management but not people management!
- Narrow minded outside of their products!
- Unrealistic in bonus targets.. This organisation has a typical 12% growth year on year and sets bonus way above what any blue chip company could dream of! And so don't pay out!
- They want change but are not willing to make changes!
- Poor and non existing systems to support people aspects of the organisation.
- Blurred reporting lines between medical and non medical!
- Medical team put on an inappropriate pedestal.
- Really poor bedside manner of medical team with clients and with other operational departments. (How is this accepted as okay in today's working world?) Yes medically trained personnel have a certain intelligence, but basic caring human interactions can not be above them. The strap line for the organisation is after all "worldwide reach, human touch"!
- Poor holidays and benefits when aligned to similar organisations of this scale.
- International travel to work locations is expected during personal time
- Privately owned
