Cummins reviews

Layoffs are ridiculous, very poor management team, they lie so much about work life balance. They say they care but that is false. Cummins will work you to death and lay you off!!!

There are three reasons one should think twice before working at Cummins...forced ranking, forced ranking, and forced ranking...did I mention forced ranking? After 10 years of working at Cummins all the downsides I've observed and experienced can be traced back to the forced ranking (known also as "rank-n-yank") which is a performance management practice that originated from Jack Welch and GE and requires all employees to be ranked a 1 (best), 2 (average), or 3 (below average) against their peers with a with a forced distribution of 20%-70%-10% (1-2-3) where those getting ranked a 1 will receive a merit increase and inflation adjustment in pay, those ranked a 2 will receive a pay adjustment for inflation, and those ranked a 3 will receive no pay increase and are placed on a recovery plan with a set time limit. From my understanding and discussions with various employees in management and human resources, of the 10% ranked a 3, anywhere from 25% to 100% will be terminated each year depending on the company's performance at the time. In addition, anyone ranked a 3 will find it extremely difficult to change positions within the company since they are typically required to get out from behind the "3 ball" prior to moving to a new job role but if ranked a 3 two years in a row results in immediate termination which creates somewhat of a "catch 22" situation. I may sound biased against the forced ranking performance management process but do believe there is a time and place for it in order to trim the fat and re-establish an efficient and productive work force but that time at Cummins was in the 1999-2001 time frame. Even Jack Welch stated that after three years of forced ranking the performance management process becomes a "war" in which management battles to keep their productive employees out from behind the "3 ball" and at the same time has to scramble to find their quota of "sacrificial lambs" to offer to the gods of human resources. So what is the end result of 10 yrs of forced ranking at Cummins? If I had to sum it up in one sentence (which you can see is very difficult to do since long term implementation of a forced ranking is not only unethical and sadistic but violates national labor laws of virtually every European nation), I would say that long-term implementation of a forced ranking performance management system has destroyed any synergy that Cummins ever had and will prevent the reformation of synergy until the immoral practice is abolished and used only as a last resort. Since synergy is a state in which the output of the whole exceeds the output of the individual components and a forced ranking performance management system results in every employee looking out for him or herself, it's only natural that synergy will be destroyed and any effort to establish synergy, such as Team Based Work Systems, will be doomed from the moment of conception. I could continue rambling on about this matter, possibly indefinitely, but there's plenty of information on the internet about this topic and the long-term negative effects it has on companies and its employees. For those reading this that have fallen victim to the forced ranking and were either terminated or are on the verge of being terminated, try not to take it personally and let it damage your self esteem. What right does someone have to judge you when they most likely have never worked with you and may not even know your name or face. For those of you reading this that are considering employment with Cummins, you might consider doing some more research on the topic of forced ranking and discuss it with human resources during the interview process so that you know exactly what you're getting yourself into, especially those of you who may be considering uprooting your entire family to go work for a company where your job is on the line every year regardless of your or the company's performance. For those of you that are reading this and have recently started working at Cummins... welcome to Cummins.