RAND reviews

internal labor market can be challening

- Senior leadership (director and VP levels) provides limited transparency about project availability, expectations for business development, and how staff can meaningfully contribute to the research portfolio. • Leadership culture can be dismissive or abrasive, and guidance is often opaque or inconsistent. • The organization is in the midst of an unresolved identity and strategy crisis—unclear priorities, shifting guidance on what kinds of work to pursue, and no coherent message about the future. • Anxiety is high across the workforce, with little evidence at the researcher level that promised “course corrections” are translating into tangible improvements.