I understand now. Thank you for clarifying.
Pine
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <
djemielniak(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'll add a question of my own here. I find
this statement interesting:
"Please
rate these other qualifications: (Please rate 0 to 5 with 0 being 0 not
important; 5 for extremely important)... Experience of working in an
a-hierarchical, participative management environment". I find this
puzzling
because WMF is generally hierarchical
organization, with the board an
executive director at the top, followed by middle management, followed by
line employees, contractors, and interns. I'm wondering if what is
intended
here is a sentiment that the ED Search Committee
would like to *transform
*WMF
into a less heirarchical organization. Could someone from the ED Search
Committee or the Board expand on what your intentions are with this
question? I cannot imagine how WMF could function as an
"a-hierarchical...
management environment", although I could
understand if there is an
aspiration to collapse a layer or two in the org chart and/or to delegate
more responsibility from the Board or ED to employees who have more
expertise in various domains.
I don't think it is the role of the ED search committee to transform the
organization. However (speaking for myself) I believe that an experience in
a-hierarchical, participative management environment helps understand
wiki-culture a lot.
I'd dare say that some of the WMF employees I knew had great skills, but
had trouble with adjusting to the a-hierarchical/participative nature of
our movement that the WMF is part of. The WMF is less hierarchical than
many NGOs, and also as a part of a larger movement is subject to
participative and discursive culture (just take this very discussion as an
example: a very hierarchical and non-participative ED would find it
difficult to understand why we are even having it).
dj
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