At Nestle Philippines, Incorporated (NPI), career advancement opportunity is quite dependent on who your superior is. Obviously this comment is also applicable for any company. However, most companies take the necessary steps to "weed out" the "bad apples" within senior management. Unfortunately, NPI has yet to do so despite numerous assurances to middle and junior management. There is still a number of senior managers at NPI who do not display the Nestle manager qualities and imbibe the Nestle leadership principles.
There is still also too much "layers" in the decision making process. Despite the 2004 transition from a heirarchichal organizational structure into a network structure, NPI has yet to fully shed off all its former "bad habits." Sales commercial planning for example is still done top-down when it should be bottom-up. Other regions practice bottom-up, but it is not the same for all. NPI should do a better job of ensuring that the network structure is indeed followed especially since this is the vision of Mr. Brabeck that all employees were expecting to be implemented.
