The office environment is good.

The Labor Standards Act is followed fully.

The system is very strange. An associate manager in one department has a great deal of authority, and senior management is overly indulgent toward her as well. A single word from her can even carry more weight than the CEO’s. She reaches into every area and wants to manage every department. Under her leadership, the turnover rate is very high, and the departments she manages are never fully staffed. Employees frequently have to take on multiple roles. She likes to interfere across departments, and every department has to cooperate with her. Nothing needs to be planned in advance; whenever she thinks of something, she issues orders and assigns urgent tasks, taking “rolling adjustments” to the extreme. As a result, many people in various departments have resigned because of her.

Another issue is that this company has little in the way of a promotion system. Department heads are all people she knows who have been brought in. In a company where an associate manager’s authority is equivalent to that of the chairman, the future is cause for concern.