Speak the truth about staffing problems
Posted: 07 Sep 2012 @ 00:26
Managing people decently is an essential part of Christian work
- no a bureaucratic luxury, argues Jon Kuhrt
The organisational dysfunction exposed by the Archbishop of
Canterbury's commissaries' interim report on the diocese of
Chichester is shocking. This case is focused on safeguarding
children and vulnerable adults, but in many ways it is an extreme
example of a wider problem in the Church: that of poor management
of people.
The "bad fruit" (Matthew 7.17) that is exposed has not emerged
from nowhere. It grows in dysfunctional settings, where clear
expectations are not established, ...
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