What does the leadership team at Macy's need to get better at?

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30 Answers from Employees at Macy's

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Provide the tools and time to get the job done. Don't expect 1 person to do a teams job and extra projects with no help and time to do it

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Macys is hiring people way too young. I'm retail 35 years and my boss is 23 with no retail experience. How am I suppose to respect them?

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Everything. Macy's will promote anyone and when it comes time to cut jobs they cut the best managers and newly promoted get demoted or fired

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They have no leadership skills . Treat employees with disrespect an talk down to you because they wear a red badge.

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The leadership must get out on the front lines occasionally to see for themselves what customers think and want.

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Stop treating employees as expendable and start coaching to your associates' talents rather than using blanket coaching sound bytes.

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Better communication between departments from sales and support, especially when individual department's interests can create a conflict.

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Being honest, knowing the expectations and how to do the job for the people they are managing.

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Agreeing with eachother, congratulating associate more for their efforts, listening more instead of judging. Investigating

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Having their areas covered with enough associates and also better communication between executives and associates.

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Knowing it's people and not degrading every management choice. You never do right by some.

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Being avaible and keeping the same staff we go through so many people

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Getting to know their employees better. Fix the problems within the company.

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Communication with the employees and to be out on the floor constantly.

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They need to do their jobs and take it seriously

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Communication. Coaching. Training. Conflict resolution. Positive feedback. Ethics

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Bad comunication to employees and disrepectful to employees

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Communication to employee.and better safety program .

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Treat the employees better more money

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Communication and not ridiculing your staff

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Communication, leadership and coaching.

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Listening to employe's

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Communication, Accountability

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time management

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communication