National Education Association Employee Reviews
Out of 28 National Education Association employee reviews, 52% were positive. The remaining 48% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping National Education Association improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
There are leaders at all levels of the organization who are willing to battle upper management on points of principle.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Put more emphasis on productivity and less on ideological purity.
Making decisions, especially risk management
Vision - they are living in the 1970s.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
The health benefits are second to none. For me it is worth way more than 30k/year.
Healthcare - it amounts to an exemption from Obamacare.
Health benefits are way better than the private sector.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
No cost of living increases, so you take a pay cut every year.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Technical expertise. Discounting management, the teamwork is pretty good.
A couple educated, interesting people; good communication among staff,
Some are knowledgable, and all avoid conflict.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The clashes between workers and management lead to camaraderie among the workers.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Hire professional management and either reduce the number of projects or hire more staff.
Replace most of the managers and renegotiate the union contract equally fair to workers and management.
Replace every middle manager and most line managers.
What did you like most about the interview process?
For me, the questions were unfocused and it was pretty clear the interviewers as a whole did not understand them. Of course, it they had had other candidates with my qualifications they would not have been able to differentiate us.
Low pressure, easy not to be nervous
They were friendly and trusting. I was the one asking the tough questions.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Allow experts to lead the vetting of applicants; check references for real.
What makes you most happy at work?
Completing difficult tasks and supporting my co-workers.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
HQ mentality makes it difficult to innovate; contribution in the field or below management level is discounted. The first step to any solution is replacing middle management and think hard about keeping any line managers.
Business model is obsolete. Siphoning money away from unions and using it for lobbying had its heyday in the 1970s.
Organization can't change and has a not-invented-here mindset. Replace the key people and the organization can evolve.
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Management - almost no managers have training or previous experience