Pathway Group Reviews

Awful management leadership that fails to listen to the workforce, ironic considering they have "Workforce Solutions" within their business title. The management are only interested in those that follow and immediately remove anyone from the organisation who does not fit into the requirements of the business needs. If you fail to execute relevant commands even where you have provided sufficient data and evidence to reflect why they should not move forward with a decision, the CEO finds it easier to remove you as a threat or rather should I say implement a fall guy to execute commands relying on a culture of blame. The CEO and one of the directors are distance from what actually happens on the front line and only intervene for removal of staff. The HR Department do not understand the concept of Human Resource Management and again if challenged will happily admit failed responsibility of their own actions by looking at alternative ways to remove you from the organisation. Pathways recently went through a restructure and failed to answer certain questions put forward from staff collectively but instead failed to consult and answer certain questions, selecting IT issues as their reason for muddled or poor communications and actively choosing not to answer questions outright with guidance from their HR. This the COO felt was fair and reasonable to tell staff that the restructure was announced the day they found out even though this was discussed before the COO was appointed. I worked for the organisation for a long period of time and was very worried about their blatant lack of due diligence and ownership of issues, lack to recognise talent within teams, listen to the voice of the business and failure to drive performance opportunities. Once again Ironic considering the CEO loves to promote his motivational books and use Social Websites to promote himself as a celebrity. Once again ironic considering he doesn't like to engage or talk with anyone when there are issues or problems. Don't write anymore books if your going to ignore your own words and work. If you cant motivate yourself to become a better manager then you won't be able to motivate the reader.

Micro-management, unobtainable targets, extremely poor treatment of clients/service users, bullying from managers and other staff towards staff members and clients, blatant favouritism, tension and unfriendly competition, public shaming of staff members in team meetings, being told we were not worth our wage if we couldn’t keep up with impossible asks. Any issues raised were always thrown back in your face by management and redirected as a criticism to the staff who raised it. Encouraged to treat service users poorly to force results. Staff members being fired left right and centre, to the point of management telling a room of colleagues they are firing the staff member as they are walking in from the car park first thing!