Speak the Truth about Staffing Problems

Church Times
September 7, 2012

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/7-september/comment/opinion/speak-the-truth-about-staffing-problems

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, ...