High burn out rate - Senior Advisor Deltares Employee Review

Little clarity about roles and mandate which makes the realisation of your work and professional goals very challenging, additionally hard if it does not fall within the focus of the institute, e.g. hydrological modelling and it requires across units cooperation Working environment experience depends highly on your department head and his capacity and willingness to position your work, and this varies greatly between departments and units Politics could be particularly strong and difficult to deal with if you are foreign or have a different cultural background. According to some everything is possible there, the question is then, in a place where there are so many exceptions to the rules, who is receiving the benefits of these exceptions? How do you achieve this? Too much focus on visibility and declarability combined with a performance evaluation system that considers individual achievements only, and combined with limited management steering on cooperation creates a feeling of constant competition between consultants Burn out rates in some units especially in the age rate 20 to 30 were identified as high already in 2018- not clear measures or plans were implemented in the following 3 years even after feedback from personnel about the need to strengthen team work practices and environment