FHI 360 reviews

As mentioned in many other reviews, senior management (those at the Executive Management Team level and the C-suite) are seriously out of touch with their own employees, the development marketplace, and management best practices in general. Major issues that negatively affect staff retention, revenue, and business development are continually surfaced through various fora to leadership (including the CEO's somewhat surreal idea that he can manage a large organization through a comment box) and then willfully ignored. It is a mystery why they bother to ask us how to make things better if they aren't willing to address any problems. Our management structure allocates accountability to all but responsibility to none which leads to confusion and inaction which results in the total demoralization of management and technical staff. The perennial leadership response to this comment is to create endless working groups that are accountable to no one and produce zero results. It is like all of senior management has OCD and can't focus on an issue long enough to solve it.

The organization seems lost in strategy without focus on what it takes to implement programs. So much time and energy is spent on operating models that we can't seem to implement and delivery excellence that doesn't take management into account. Many in mid-level leadership (the only view I have) don't have the experience or expertise needed to run a company this large and complex. Very few opportunities for advancement. CEO seems to be lost, manages through a suggestion box and doesn't instill confidence.