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Business for Sustainable Development Reviews

2.4

45% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)

45% positive business outlook

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3 reviews
1.0
22 Oct 2020

Poor leadership

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Pros

Flexible working time; open collaboration with colleagues

Cons

What I disliked most in my experience working at this organization is that the top executive is a micro-manager who is not open to listening to his employees. He always thinks that his ideas and methods are superior. He doesn't give constructive criticism either. He often finds fault in the work of his employees even if their clients are satisfied with their work. Many employees do not like working with him because of his very poor qualities as a "leader." Additionally, he has favorite employees, and his bias is often apparent during meetings and discussions.

4.0
3 Aug 2024
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Pros

The best things about working in this industry and in this specific organization are the flexibility of your schedule, you get paid by output and deliverables not by the hour (although we must be available/reachable within the PH business office hours), you meet wonderful people from different walks of life plus you get to learn from them (avoid the toxic ones!), great workplace to connect with sustainability practitioners and network with like-minded organizations, you'll get the perks of learning from both private and public sector during various engagements and projects (you get to attend events for free!!) and lastly you get to contribute to the SDGs one way or another.

Cons

You will not be spoon fed here, you need to be proactive and take initiatives to achieve your targets and goals per department. Depending on your superior, you have to be adaptable to navigate yourself in. You'll be given certain tasks that you may not know about or understand so you'll be on your own basically but if you have team members and a BRILLIANT manager then it's all good ;) (as I said, there are toxic ones), and lastly the change of management was not well executed and so employees had a hard time with the adjustment/turnover.

1.0
17 Feb 2021
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Pros

Very flexible working hours with option to work from home. Extremely reliable and easy-to-work with employees. Opportunity to interact with clients' upper management. Family-like atmosphere.

Cons

Leadership. The Executive Director is often closed-minded to most ideas of employees. He normally only accepts ideas that align with his mindset. He is the be-all and end-all of the organization which affects productivity and working hours since it creates a bottleneck for the approval process; this also slows down any changes that need to be implemented for the betterment of the organization. Theories and methodologies are changed regularly, even in the middle of an client engagement which causes confusion and delays for both the staff and client. Heavy workload and extended working hours are considered regular occurrences and does not cause alarm to him so no mitigation practices are enforced. The Executive Director also tends to force his ideas on clients causing friction and leaving the employees to do damage control.

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