Toxic Culture in Production - Anonymous employee Woodside Energy Employee Review

The performance management system was too easily corrupted. A person could be given whatever rating the boss wanted and there were no independent appeal, requirements to have any evidence to back up the score or procedural fairness to how the decision was reached. Production in particular had a culture where dissenters or people who asked uncomfortable questions of management were considered “dangerous” and the HR system used against them. Promotions and job appointments lacked transparency with a preselected inner circle being marked for greatness as “rising stars” and given access to select roles as part of the “development plans”. Means you get very young managers who confuse their talents with their ambitions and for who failure is not a barrier to their next promotion. For the humble majority you get left in a role unless you find another one and are allowed to move.