I have seen high performing senior managers from some of our acquisitions resign and join competitors because of the terrible disrespectIve and egoistic way they are treated by some of the senior SLB management. This costs the company huge amount of money in lost business but still it goes on unaddressed in the company.
The SLB managerial culture is eating itself and doesn’t realise it.
I don't remember the last time I ever heard of one of the managers attending OFS4 or a manager team building events like the ones where they would go fishing in the Gulf. Second and more importantly, managers are too busy fighting fires because the transformation is c-ap and there is no time for employee development or feedback by the managers. SLP3 reviews reflected that this year alone. There was no face to face reviews between employees and managers. SLP3 just moved to the next step automatically after 3 months of inactivity. Sad that this is our management now.
SLB got lot of bosses, not leaders...especially in the drilling automation side...i surprised to see "le patron" as name board outside these buffoons office...
Let's see:
-science backgrounds already tend to have lower social skills
-advanced degrees even moreso
-employees tend to be hired at age 25, with zero prior work history. Fresh out, first job.
-there is no people skills program or training. Instead, they will OJT from their tribal predecessors, who also had no training or experience.
-many of them in EM(S) will never really be client or customer facing, instead locked in a cubicle with other like-minded individuals.
Showing up to work most of the time, is enough qualification for the position. Hold the title for a couple of years, take the pay adjustment increase and extra PIP%, and then say you are no longer interested. Go back to technical or "special projects"
Calling many of them “managers” is a stretch because they have received this title without earned credentials or achievments.
It's a generational thing, they only know Excel and power point. No skills beyond that of data management. Student debt and way too much access to cell phone and internet. The whole system is doomed.
Why are Schlumberger managers people management skills so terrible?
We are not encouraged to develop the "human" side and indeed it is seen as weakness
We like our egos in control
Every key knows oil service company management is a joke. They are not there because of ability or education.
Highly Dysfunctional and Self Destructive while we witness the internal collapse of SLB as we know it
The party is over but the senior execs are still getting their bonuses so it goes on ultimately destroying share holder value
Whatever happened to People, technology and profits?
People are demotivated
Technology is in a misguided and expensive Silicon Valley dreamland
While profits are going down the tube along with the share price
Abandon ship
Dog eat dog, and some time there nothing left they eat everything. And I really mean everything