Pluspunten
- Mostly SABIC has been successful in attracting good, capable and smart people. - Work life balance and flexibility is very good. - Excellent mix of multinational cultures working together.
Minpunten
- Forced ranking of employees on performance reviews used to calculate annual bonuses still in place. No one seems quite sure of the system, but it is viewed as good management to have a bell curve of performances and bad management if you have a team of all excellent performers. An excellent review is essential and expected in Saudi work culture, which may mean group members from other regions can get dinged. - Organizational structure is excessively functional. Project managers have almost no power in this structure. - Old school management attitudes from Jack Welch days of GE. The Saudis seem to also have adopted this. - Nothing ever really happens despite having departments and KPI’s in place to supposedly make stuff happen. People who really try to improve things get dinged whereas those who enforce the status quo do well. It’s almost as if there is an unspoken understanding that it is best not to push for any change