Needs Improvement - Marketing Kaplan Employee Review

Management was constantly changing, and chaotic. We had a new "goal" about every other month. Management was chosen by the buddy system and by personality. An example: The man chosen to manage the purchasing department came from the automobile industry, and had absolutely no publishing background. Worse, he had little interest in learning about publishing or book printing, which his department dealt with. At one point, the company announced a large number of layoffs, then held a party/meeting two months later, and was surprised that not all employees were so enthusiastic. Competency and dedication were meaningless.