Manea: Working in a multinational compares to public red tape

The working system in multinational companies can be compared to the red tape that is specific to the state institutions, believes Dan Manea, who took over as HR head for Northern Europe of Novartis Pharma Services in April, a division of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. “Working in a big organisation can be compared to a certain extent to the national administration system. In Romania, when you need some official documents, you have to go through four or five offices to get a document stamped,” says Manea, who has 12 years experience working in HR in multinationals in the pharmaceutical industry such as Eli Lilly and Novartis, with his latest position before the current one being regional HR manager for Eastern Europe for Novartis. Corporations do not work at this level of inefficiency but they do have some latency in their system.