Culture of fear and disorder - Anonymous employee VSO Employee Review

1.0
28 Feb 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The country office programs and the staff are wonderful people. The concepts they regarding localisation and giving power to the programs are positive and well intentioned.

Cons

There is a prevailing culture of bullying, poor management, and lack of long-term vision on how to resolve these issues. Systems policies processes to enable in effective working are missing. There are aspects of gender-based discrimination and poor mental health support within the working environment. Limited options for promotion or training. Very low staff morale.

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VSO Response
2y
Thanks for your feedback. We are pleased to hear that you enjoyed working with colleagues in our programme teams and appreciate VSO's approach of volunteering for development, working with the communities, and demonstrating the localisation agenda. We are very sorry to hear you felt there was a culture of bullying behaviour. We take all allegations around bullying extremely seriously and investigate these allegations in line with our Harassment, Bullying and Intimidation Prevention policy. We also have several channels for reporting these incidents to ensure we quickly respond and address these issues. We continue to support managers through a range of coaching, mentoring and more formalised training. We take wellbeing and mental health support very seriously and have a range of support systems in place, from our in-house medical team to an assistance programme for our staff and volunteers.

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5.0
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4.0
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Flexible, decent pay, reliable, on time, no drama

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VSO Response
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Thanks very much for your feedback. We're glad to hear your thoughts on the flexible and positive working environment at VSO as well as our remuneration. We are sorry to hear your feedback on the schedule, heavy in meetings and minimal support from supervisors. We are committed to a leadership style that enables our staff and volunteers to do their best work and feel supported. We also work through a distributed leadership approach to give people decision-making power, accountability and learning and development opportunities in a less structured, conventional way.
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