Project Management Institute reviews

Management creates a culture of fear through politics, favoritism and inconsistency in performance expectations. Supervisors are way more worried about what their boss will think than doing the right thing. As others have said, lots of firing; many for unjust reasons. Going to HR is worthless. Stakeholders are not treated fairly. Each service center and PMI department make their own exceptions to rules and PMI policies. Lack of communication between departments is inexcusable.

Actions don't match the messaging. There is an enormous amount of favoritism and inconsistency in performance expectations. Some leaders get away with extremely poor performance and totally inappropriate staff management behaviors. Staff concerns are dismissed in favor of protecting the beliefs and perceptions that senior leadership wants to promulgate. Dissention is attributed to incompetence and incompetence is rationalized if you are one of the “protected”. Collaboration, if exercised appropriately. Here it is a euphemism for not delegating authority. It creates an environment where very few can actually get things done. Every organization has politics but here it really negatively impacts outcomes. That fact isn’t acknowledged because it is cloaked in the positive aspects of collaboration. Very few are empowered to make decisions and the organization is run through fear and intimidation, as has been stated by others. Rather than looking at learning opportunities, challenges and obstacles are hidden. Management will gladly own successes but quickly assigns blame rather than learn from hurdles that are overcome. Many very smart and competent people are underutilized especially if they have past experiences and creative ideas that suggest alternate approaches.