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What does the leadership team at Amazon need to get better at?

Asked 9 years ago to all employees at Amazon

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    they need to get out on the floor and do more physical jobs like tier 1 associates to get a better feel and appreciate what we do instead of

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    Our leaership is great but Josh Jackson is by far the nicest easiest going easy to talk to barier removing tier 3 i have ever worked under

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    My manager was rarely involved with what I was working on. He was not a very effective mentor and didn't bring much value to the team.

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    Communication ! Half of all standups and all hands meetings meetings given by senior staff have them questioning the value of changes and t

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    They need the power to look at individual rates and have the power to exempt people based on TOT rather than high variance work flow.

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    They need to be less centered on your rank. Also they take days to answer your questions. In the chat rooms they ignore you.

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    I don't know enough about them to comment or rate. They are nice enough but aren't genuine in their concern for real issues.

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    There is no leadership. They like to act like there is. Also the rules are broken all the time by certain people.

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    Communication with each other and associates too many times changes are made that affects our processes and associates are not notified

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    managers are rank-obsessed. They will be reluctant to speak with you if you are on a lower level. Very masculine culture

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    Recognizing the humanity of employees by not giving into the culture of giving out write-ups for one-time, slight underachievement of rates.

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    Pay attention to the associates. Stop talking about associates to other associates. Really help associates move up and not ignore them.

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    Leadership needs to get better at recognizing night shift accomplishments and reach out to say them to the actual employee.

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    Being compassionate,listening to associates concern or recommendation on what we need to do our job correctly

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    Truly care about employees, community in which amazon operates, other members in the ecosystem like vendors

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    Corporate mouthpieces at the upper-levels of the warehouse level, with varying degrees of sociopathy below that.

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    Stop micro managing the ones beneath them. Be understanding and kind, not cold and unfeeling.

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    Showing the associates they genuinely care, and treating them as people rather than number generators

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    Continuity. In 2 and a half years, I have had 8 managers.

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    Pay more attention to employee suggestions on areas of improvement .

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    Listening to our concerns and actually do something to improve it

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    Honesty and true loyalty to dedicated associates

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    Some favoritism in our department ICQA.

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    Valid Projects with good vision

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    Favoritism, friendly but lazy.

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