General Electric

Many advancement avenues, availability of professional advancement training, solid financial position.

Opportunity to move on, career-wise, to other GE business units.

International presence gives careers in GE the opportunity to take on work assignments all over the world.

Bureaucracy, very little training for new hires, and sink-or-swim placement. The Six Sigma cost containment methodology is applied far too aggressively to its employees, resulting in a widespread loss of morale that makes keeping talented individuals at GE harder. This is evidenced by the few employees that remain more than one year at my site, the extensive unfilled positions, and the increased numbers of temporary contractors, which probably cost more to keep than regular employees.

Improve new employee induction and mentoring to speed up the learning curve. Revise salary scales to reflect the same market conditions that provoke the current exodus.