My recent column on 'supervisors from hell' struck a nerve with one reader, who writes: "You should replace the term 'boss from hell' with 'workplace bully'. There has been extensive research done on workplace bullying. If a child is a...
Having an effective board of directors is as much a part of a nonprofit organization's success as it is for a corporate organization. Board directors help to shape organizational goals and objectives. They keep the organization accountable to its members...
The director of development at the charity where I work wants to be able to tell foundations that 100% of the board and staff make a donation every year. I agree that the board members should donate, but can donating...
Today's work environment is one of change and strategic thinking. Peter Senge has captured the new requirements that face organizations in his book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990). According to Senge, learning organizations...
If you look around your organization, chances are that the majority of your coworkers are women. In fact, the Canadian Policy Research Network tells us that 74.3% of nonprofit employees are female (compared to 47.5% of the total workforce in...
"I work for a large nonprofit organization where I am a health and safety committee member. There are many safety hazards in my workplace that I have brought to the attention of management and they continue to disregard the situation....
I work in a small organization (12 staff), and we have one individual who is causing a lot of problems. She can be quite moody and even nasty at times. She can be disruptive at our staff meetings, depending on...
I see other staff at my nonprofit who take supplies home or make personal use of our equipment. Is this acceptable? As usual, it depends. It depends on whether: The use is minor and reasonable, such as jotting down a...
My executive director is not managing professionally or treating me with respect. I am a hard-working, productive employee. Don't staff members who work in charities, for less than market rates in most cases, deserve better? Poor human resource management practices...
I am secretary to an executive director of a medium-sized charity. Although I am very busy, he keeps asking me to handle his personal correspondence, completely unrelated to the charity. He knows how to use his email and the fax...
