Emerson reviews

1) Emerson Corporate should take a more involved role with business units and divisions. I believe it is acceptable to allow some autonomy in running the businesses, but reporting is so convoluted, it is difficult to get the truth to the people who need to hear it. 2) Talk of change is cheap--takes entirely too long to change or implement anything due to matrix structure and local employees who were unwilling. I fought local employees unwilling to change on a daily basis. 3) No sharing of ideas or best practices from one company to another--I often found myself recreating the wheel when another division was already "doing it". 4) The company leverages the temporary contract employee instead of hiring full time--many good and highly valued employees in some areas had been temp 1-2 years and were lost during the 2009 layoffs

Opportunities to advance are there, but some departments are harder to advance in and out of.