I instructed my employees to answer the EES honestly and don't worry about the score that I received. A low score, what's it matter? My raise is going to be non-existent anyway. A high score, won't result in a higher raise or any type of promotion. I do not feel the EES score matters to the sup/mgr any longer as it has no impact on raises or promotions.
My employees lowest scores were in compensation and promotion…any surprise there? UPS no longer cares about anyone under the old designation of level 20. The past few years, more is expected, but there is no compensation increase for the increased responsibilities. Plus, I can't recall a supervisor being promoted to manager or a manager promoted to controller over the past few years. Funny, I have seen a number of UPSers promoted to Vice President. Too costly to promote sups/mgrs but we can always create another V.P.
For the first time my controller received a low score in a number of areas including compensation and career development. Used to be the controller always received a high score but not this year. I think the employees in my area were actually honest in their opinions.
But what will it matter? Is corporate going to change their response to the EES? Will they care about lower scores? The only "score" that matters right now is the share price and we are at an all time high. So corporate is going to say that what they are doing is correct. Who can argue right now with this logic?
I believe it will be down the road that the impacts to the company in terms of employee moral will be felt. But it will take 5 to 10 years and by that time all of our current "leaders" will be retired, living the good life. The company they leave behind will not be the same.
