Advancement opportunities typically not based on merit, but HR-related policy. As company is not lean and has had high expense ratios for an extended period, there is a constant outsourcing/layoff threat that is a distraction for many good workers and a productivity killer. Rather than soberly address certain challenges or poor performing staff that are social acquaintances, they typically reorganize business units between 1 and 4 times every year, so you constantly are assigned new/different managers who know this time is not permanent which leads to inattentiveness in the performance review process as they have new senior managers they need to do the self-preservation dance for. Most managers are not as transparent as in healthy organizations: after all, why share a strategy so your staff can productively think about it in advance and make timely contributions? Maybe it is all intentional as they attempt to construct New Chennai, Ohio.
