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In online evaluation,workers rank companies
NEW YORK -- Are companies like people, with personalities and quirks? Plenty of workers think so, according to an online evaluation model thousands of people have completed about their employers.
Nearly a third of companies fit a "passive-aggressive" profile, one of seven categories used to describe organizations. The next most common type was "overmanaged," the description for 18 percent of companies under data workers provided online.
Passive-aggressive companies are congenial, with minimal conflicts among workers, but they still resist meaningful change, said Gary Neilson, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, a New York-based management consultancy that developed the program.
The evaluation model was completed by more than 3,100 employees, with about half of them calling themselves middle or senior managers.
Associated Press