If HR had any concern about the current degenerate and rotten culture at Qualcomm, they would have started by cleaning up their own house.
HR and Employee Relations are part of the problem themselves. They are run by semi-literate individuals who do not have the intelligence, independence, drive, or will to maintain a healthy and professional work culture in Qualcomm.
Their concern is their own survival and to prevent the company from being sued by employees. They thrive to accomplish this at any human cost. Even if an employee reports a violation that is based on a Protected Status such as sexual harassment or discrimination, their first reaction is to find if the employee has collected any evidence that could be used against the company in a court. If they conclude that the violation has occurred but the employee does not possess usable evidence, they would get rid of the employee and possibly give his/her manager a slight slap on the hand.
HR's policy in resolving employee-manager conflicts is as follows:
•If employee is at fault, get rid of the employee.
•If manager is at fault, get rid of the employee and possibly give the manager a slight slap on the hand.
They get rid of the employee in either case because they do not want to make any admission of guilt to employee and expose Qualcomm to potential lawsuits.
The effect of the practice is that employees refrain from approaching HR for help and afraid to provide feedback.
Their "Qualcomm Way" booklet is a joke. In March of this year (2016) they paid SEC $7.5m settlement for bribing Chinese officials by hiring their unqualified relatives with the direct involvement of an HR director. In June of last year (2015) a former senior executive was sentenced to 18 month in prison for insider trading. Two engineers jumped to their deaths from Qualcomm buildings in 2010 and 2012 and HR blamed it on the victims having "personal problems" rather than admitting it had anything to do with the abusive and sweatshop working conditions that they have created.
The performance review process at Qualcomm is entirely flawed and completely subjective. Managers have the right to veto and override all 3rd-party feedbacks on an employee. They use this to create phony PIP's to eliminate anyone who dares to question their practices. Phony PIP's are also used to replace older good employees with cheaper H-1B workers. The list goes on and on ...
Since employees are afraid to express negative opinions, they either would not respond to the survey, or if they do, they would only write positive comments on it. The HR and Employee Relations would then show the survey result to their boss and claim that they have been doing an excellent job in maintaining a good company culture and keeping everyone happy, and in short, everything is "awesome". They may even get a larger bonus for it. If any employee complains in the future, they will show the survey result to him and say: "all your coworkers are happy with the environment, and if you are unhappy, then the problem is YOU".
This works very similar to any other dictatorship system of governance such as the Nazi Germany and the result will be the same; destruction at the end.