New CIO is a School Yard Bully & CEO doesn't care - Anonymous employee Providence Employee Review

1.0
Sep 4, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This place used to be innovative & drive for excellence, now it's run by tyrants.

Cons

This place WAS great... Now it’s the personal piggy bank of the NEW CIO to fund his old company. So much for cutting ties. Leadership no longer cares about the values that are so loudly touted, but never enforced. With a useless/powerless HR department who can't enforce anything to a CEO who is only looking at what she can do to further her carrier outside of the Health System (her contract is up in less than 2 years). Major projects that the CIO was brought onboard to champion & COMPLETE have instead been handed over to others below him. This is seen as a promotion by these people, but instead is an effort of the CIO to distance himself from a failing project. Instead of this being a promotion, this is instead more rope. This major re-work of the environment only spells disaster. This has left employees to defend for their jobs on a daily basis while the leadership sits in their Ivory Tower. Support groups have been reorganized to no longer report to those who care for & nurture the employees to bring the best success. Instead they are now reporting to a tyrant in hopes to drive the teams away from working at the health system. The commitment to the organization was to never cut headcount, but nothing was said about making this place miserable for those who have dedicated years of their lives to the success of this organization and it's commitment to the community.

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Cons

My last management was completely toxic Had health issues and a valid claim that was ignored, only pressured Was pushed out by my management when they found out my salary Mgmt requested to submit feedback for improvement, then retaliated Since HR was outsourced and trying to protect the company from further lawsuits (I was not one but contemplated due to validity) of absolutely no help and honestly, completely inappropriate. You will be repeatedly asked to provide feedback, but it will be killed with a 1 on 1. If I had laid down and taken the angry repercussions of their poor process implementation, and their complete lack of accountability, I would still be there - I just would have transferred to another manager. Some managers and teams are more toxic than others, but favoritism and bullying are allowed and seen Overworked and under-represented but was great for several years.

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