Classic case of the golden handcuffs. Company has a lot of money, so they can afford to throw a lot of it around, and don't always think things through before spending it. Culture is extremely old school. They have a jeans day on Friday but if you wear jeans on any other day you'll be reprimanded and/or written up. But for some reason they allow jeans on random days as a "treat" or bonus. Yet improper attire for women is acceptable. Very strange. Mid-level and upper management are incompetent, cliquey, and tend to micromanage everything. They have no idea what they're doing, but they have the power and it doesn't matter. The good old boy network is alive and well so if you don't fit the mold, you might as well leave and find something elsewhere because you simply will never advance. You advance based on towing the line, blindly following your "upline", not taking risks, and thinking outside the box - well that's right out. If you do, it's unsaid, but you're a troublemaker and will not advance. The leadership style is very military-like. Within the Spaulding IT department the managers are incompetent, passive/aggressive, and paranoid, but they "know people" so they're moved up into positions of leadership. Many things are done only to give the impression of competence, not to actually BE competent. Granted, Amway is attempting to change these things through their "innovation" department, but the management, at least within IT, are still stuck in a siloed mentality, more concerned about power and control than for the betterment of Amway and their employees overall. As a result, many very talented people have been swept aside, kept from advancing, while 100's of millions of dollars are needlessly spent on hiring outside contractors to do what internal staff could have done much quicker, better, more efficiently.
