Pros
Deere offers flexible work hours & arrangements, opportunity for training and career growth, has a zero tolerance policy on harassment, bullying & retaliation, and uses the performance management system to document achievements throughout the year and determine pay raises. All wonderful and valuable tools.
Cons
Deere may say they offer flexibility, training, and career growth, but try asking for it. They go to great lengths to make sure quite the opposite occurs. Someone harasses or bullies you? Well you better suck it up and quit taking it personally. Whatever you do don’t report it. Making someone else look into it and fill out paperwork only means you better prepare for retaliation. And I’ve personally had to use performance management against people more times than I’ve used it to help make a case for them. The ratings are assigned and approved by Senior management before employee comments are submitted anyway. As managers we can give employees whatever ratings we want for whatever reasons we want.