Resources For Human Development Reviews

Pros

Flexible schedule
Positive atmosphere
Competitive pay
Opportunity for training and clinical/team feedback
Supportive Management

Cons

Stressful/Demanding work environment
Hard to feel part of a team
Would be very difficult to start w/out considerable prior experience in the field

Advice to Senior Management

Better training and supervision, don't hire lower level staff through open interview format- low buy-in on the part of employees is the main fault in the system.

Pros

Most of the employees are extremely competent and genuinely care about the people they help. It's a fun place to work, with alot going on both work-related and personal development. A lot of give and take discussion. Vacation benefits are generous, and health care premiums are decently covered for single people. in house training is pretty good especially for front line staff. And if you have a relative that works here, you're in.

Cons

RHD touts itself as a values based agency, but those values -- plastered in every location -- are not followed consistantly. Decisions are arbitrary and capricious. This makes RHD a tough place to work, because you never know when you'll get called on the carpet or for what. The CEO has pet programs, which take precedent all costs, both human and monetary. Pay is on the low side compared to other similar organizations in the area, and raises are rare, unless you're one of the management team's pets.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. Respect your employees. Treat everyone equally. Establish fair personnel procedures, especially when it comes to hiring, reprimand and dismissal. Learn how other nonprofits work.

Pros

Layed back and low-stress environment. Not a lot of pressure to put in overtime. RHD culture promotes empowerment, so managers don't spend a lot of time managing you. Although benefits are costly, it is made up for with time off, 22 days a year PTO and 11 holidays. As a nonprofit, RHD does indeed help people who need it, so if that's important to you, RHD might be for you.

Cons

Incompetently managed in almost every respect. Lots of dead weight on staff and no annual raises for 2-3 years. Senior management has never worked anywhere else, is resistant to any new ideas, and is just there to continue feathering their nests until they retire. A technology dinosaur.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on efficiency and cutting the waste and the place will be flush with cash.

Pros

I love the work environment...open, fun, diverse, the type of experience you'd expect at a human services type non-profit but here it's done with a little more color and pop. Very, very good people working here, many of whom really care about what we do and take pride in their jobs. While not universal, I believe the workforce here is very estute and professional.

Cons

Senior management is set in their ways. 40 years of doing things the same way can be tough to overcome, but I think they need to face reality and modernize a bit. Reinventing the wheel never really works...it's round for a reason.

Advice to Senior Management

Add some younger and newer folks to the management team and take the advice of people outside your own circle. It is okay to change - especially if the changes lead to a stronger business.

Pros

Provide care for those individuals whom need it along with becoming apart of a family.

Cons

They don't want to pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay Me; I did the work. Reimburse me, I provided transportation.

Pros

The benefits are decent, the pay is average. Their group homes are nice and or have the potential to be nicer.

Cons

The hiring of family and friends within management and senior management is astonishing. You are not treated with any respect and humiliated in front of your peers. You can forget about voicing any ideas within the agency because if you do they will no longer be your own or shot down. It is a very disappointing company to work for with very low morale of staff and managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Why bother they wouldn't take it even if you beat them over the head with it. Treat people as you expect to be treated in return. Mr. Fishman should follow the advice and philosophy he gives in his book....The Experiment Isn't Working sweetheart.

Pros

1. Supportive management.
2. Opportunity to grow within the organization.
3. Everybody get equal bonus - including the CEO and the management.
4. The CEO gets 10 times the salary of the lowest paid full time employee!
5. Very good place to work if you have less commitments in life.

Cons

Pay and benefits are very less. Pricey 401k fee - no company match.
They still do a great job for being a non-profit.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is very receptive to employee feedback. With the current economy they try to make it work as much as possible.

Pros

you have a job but you dont do overtimer

Cons

no pay incrtease and give employees holliday pay

Advice to Senior Management

increase pay

Pros

Good supervision at many of their locations, important population to work with, strong behavioral theory, mini classes for any one.

Cons

Lots of traveling, individual site are fairly unorganized, not much recognition for quality work, many opportunities for bad work to get unnoticed.

Advice to Senior Management

More specific an individualized supervision, recognize your employees' strengths and weaknesses by actually talking with them. Help train skills please.

Pros

Open environment, great communication, terrific people, the ability to come to work in the morning and go home at night feeling good about what you do, the knowledge that you're making a difference, being part of a place that's about something important and is always trying out new and innovative ideas.

Cons

We'd all like to make more money. But Resources' salaries are about what you'd expect for a human services corporation, and they look for ways to add extra benefits

Advice to Senior Management

We're proud to work at Resources for Human Development, and hope you'll keep this values-based organization moving forward into the future while holding to the ideals and values that make it great