Pros
Three weeks vacation starting. Good work associates. Can-do attitude at the worker bee level.
Cons
The up-and-coming senior managers are the ones who believe in the "all stick, no carrot" approach to motivating their subordinates. This philosophy is being force fed to middle management, who are slowly adopting it with disastrous results. An highly competent associate was given a scathing performance review, and then asked why she was leaving when she found another position. Similarly, another highly competent associate was told he would be fired if he didn't start performing better. When he turned in his resignation upon finding a new position, his manager was shocked. Both these situations resulted in frantic scrambles to find someone to fill the vacancy, because both these people were solid performers, pulling significant shares of the workload.
