Great working environment, poor upper-management organization - Store Manager Swarovski Employee Review

4.0
31 Oct 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Positive store atmosphere and working environment. Continual learning program. Lots of focus on teamwork. Positive atmosphere and environment. Great employee discount program.

Cons

Little opportunity for promotion. Disorganization at the head office level causes confusion with conflicting directives and redundant procedures.

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Swarovski Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. At Swarovski, we truly value constructive employee and customer feedback, both positive and negative. Our hope is to make each individual employee, from our stores to our corporate offices, feel that they are valued. We are of course thrilled that you list as Pros: Focus on Learning, Teamwork and our Discount program, as teamwork and learning and development our the cornerstone of our success. As for our discount, we love when our employees can wear and enjoy our products and showcase them to our customers and thus we offer a generous discount and a Jewelry allotment to our retail employees. As for your Cons : “Little opportunity for promotion", please note we have an excellent record of promoting from within and working with associates during the mid-year and year-end reviews, to create an Individual development plan and to identify what they need to do to achieve their short and long-term career goals and move to the next level. We are sorry if this has not been your experience at Swarovski and we suggest you talk with your manager and HRBP about your career goals and how to achieve them. Once again, we want to thank you for taking the time to leave a review at Swarovski, we value feedback both positive and negative and your feedback will be shared with upper management as feedback is crucial to the betterment of the company.

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