Unhealthy, Chaotic Environment; Externally Glamorous, Internally Demoralizing
Pros
- Mission to help those most in need all over the world is admirable and respectable - Excellent, generous array benefits - Local, national, and international recognition of company name - Meetings with high profile leaders and scholars - Fun activities to bring co-workers together
Cons
- Deplorable, counterintuitive, counterproductive management - Elitist, snobbish, crony country-club corporate culture - Misappropriation of employees' skills and capabilities - Difference of perspective from status quo is self-defeating and disrespected - No accountability for bad decisionmaking or poor work performance - No consistency with execution or enforcement of foundation policies for any given situation; there is no standard procedure for achieving objectives; foundation constantly operates by exception rather than standard - Inapproachable, unreliable, untrustworthy HR department defends perpetrators of misconduct and punishes those who report them - Displays of homophobic intolerance, racial intolerance, and ageism are not disciplined or reprimanded - Employees without managerial skills are promoted to mid-level or senior-level management - Occasional re-organizations often eliminate an employee's position without the employee's knowledge in advance or unexpectedly quadruples the workload for employees who already have too many responsibilities - Despicable treatment of program assistants (they are perpetually undervalued) - Abhorrent treatment of temporary employees - Cannot report work issues to supervisors because they are either a) untrustworthy and biased, b) contributing to the problem, or c) the ones causing the problem - Employees who should rightfully be promoted to management are patronized by supervisors - Employees are typecasted into roles; very difficult to attain higher level positions; transfers are often discouraged; professional growth cannot be taken seriously - Hypocrisy and abuse of foundation's 14 guiding principles internally among employees - Lack of privacy (one cannot make a personal phone call from workspace without being overheard by two or three people) - No sense of urgency to get things done; the culture condones laziness, procrastination, and inefficiency much to the consternation of employees who need to resolve issues quickly and timely - Several employees are frequently burnt out, exhausted, constantly worried, frustrated with no support from management - Blatant, oblivious ignorance of employees' roles and responsiblities, even among team members within the same department; many of the supervisors have very little inclination of what their direct reports do on a daily basis
