Boeing

Large company with opportunity to move around and learn new roles.

As an employee who started three decades ago, the Boeing Company had deteriorated into a share price first and employees last company. Although new recent leadership talks of a new culture, the opposite has been true, and employee happiness/satisfaction is at an all-time low. If you do join the company, join in a role that is protected by a union, so waffling leadership decision-making doesn't upend your life every time a leader acquires a new role.

Prior to merging with McDonnell Douglas, the Boeing workforce was known as the Boeing Family. Sadly, that died in the 1990s, and employee satisfaction has plummeted. Executive leaders focus on profits, share price, and their associated bonuses. Although this can appear like short-term gains for the company, it erodes the very foundation it was built upon, which is the workforce.

The workforce needs to be empowered, motivated, and heard, instead of simply a numbered pawn in a game solely focused on shareholder value. I wish more leaders were trained adequately and learned about motivation, empathy, and empowerment to gain the very best from the workforce, instead of ruling with an iron fist.

With adequately trained management, decision-making could be delegated to the lowest possible level, who know and understand the working level best, thus providing nimbleness. The future could be bright, but it will require substantially more listening from those at the working level and not simply ultimatums from on high.