The Management Agenda is Roffey Park’s annual survey of organisational life. It aims to identify the key issues and challenges that today’s managers are facing in the workplace and inform strategies for organisational effectiveness. The Management Agenda provides a current snapshot of organisational life but equally importantly, now in its 15th year, it is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential indicators of workplace trends. We work with Roffey Park to deliver an INGO cut of this survey and subsequent report.
For People In Aid, our membership and the wider humanitarian and development community, the INGO Management Agenda is a robust way of triangulating the ‘environmental scanning’ process that individual organisations undertake as part of their annual planning cycle, and the data gives crucial insights that inform and underpin ‘people strategy’.
2012 INGO Management Agenda
The INGO sector operates in ‘fragile states’ where civil society and local government structures are weak or non-existent, this has unique implications for HR. Trust, cross-cultural awareness and organizational values each play an important role in ensuring an international team remains functional and performs well.
Working within a difficult wider economic environment, employee wellbeing, work-life-balance and the problems associated with the tightening of budgets, are all issues managers must consider. With reference to managers surveyed specifically for the report, the INGO Management Agenda explores these challenges and makes recommendations on how to negotiate the solutions.
