This organization has a deep problem within its senior management - Anonymous employee Oxfam Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Colleagues were knowledgeable and most were helpful. Salary and benefits were decent but overall nothing impressive.

Cons

There is no transparency within management and their decision making. It is a group of people who are more interested in elevating their personal profiles and will stop at nothing to remove any people that question them. Management also lacks diversity, and any managers (both SMT and managers) are tokens and that is all the organization cares about. For an organization that has black and brown people plastered all over its walls, it is not at all reflective of the people they work with especially at management levels. Lastly, there are little to no opportunities to grow unless you happen to be buddies with someone in upper management.

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Cons

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