World Vision International reviews

World Vision is confused about its identity; is it a business or a ministry? It tries to be both, and the employer sends confusing and often conflicting messages about employee expectations and behavior to employees. Conflict generally is not dealt with in an open and constructive manner. Passive aggressiveness is practiced by many within World Vision as a highly reformed art. Some employees, including some leadership, can have an unhealthy sense of pride that they are doing God's work because they work at World Vision. The organization restructures its workforce too often. It can be difficult to get things done and is bureaucratic. The HR Department is not respected by most individuals.

The organization has a very flat structure which provides little room for advancement. Most of the staff are program or finance with extensive international experience, who are organized into teams led by a team leader. Team leaders basically feed information to senior management and do very little actual management. Senior management is mostly busy counting beans and trying to keep the marketing/development people happy as they carry the most weight in the overall organization. WV is a very bureaucratic organization and makes decisions very slowly. Senior management rarely listens to program staff which leads them to make poor decisions concerning the organization and management of the office.