Pros
- nice central offices
- some really energised, dynamic creative team members (sadly too many work to rule, going through the motions and clearly bored)
- best efforts made to match services with need of beneficiaries
- really trying to get ahead of the curve but always falling just behind it
- genuine effort by workers to team build via a Fun Club with lot of activities organised
- generous pension scheme
- toil given for all overtime
Cons
- very hierarchical structure
- only lip service played to diversity particularly at board level
- very few opportunities for prof development -with a preference for highly paid interims some of whom have had to be carefully managed as not aligned with the cause and have caused disruption
- junior roles carry lots of responsibility not commensurate with their low salaries, eventually if good and bright they leave
- lots of hands off strategy makers
- no opp to feed back no 360 reviews - a staff forum was set up but has turned out not to be a genuine vehicle for staff feedback and has been derailed with weighty matters that should be dealt with by the HR function
- sadly a fear culture dominates with staff members ill inclined to say what they really think or speak up as there is no channel for doing this
- stifled, resulting in poor growth as emphasis and focus are often on the wrong things.
- myopic and inward looking rather than empowering a growth mindset which will take in some failure
- very risk averse, prevents creativity and real growth