Seven months, seven Deputy CEs, 0 job descriptions

The Herald reports:

Rotorua’s seven deputy chief executives have gone more than seven months without job descriptions – a situation an employment lawyer says is ‘unusual’.

Rotorua Lakes Council has also created 10 new director or manager roles at tier three – the level below deputy chief executive.

A local government change management expert says he cannot see the justification for the organisational realignment or why it has taken so long to develop job descriptions.

The deputy chief executives were appointed on March 29 as part of an “organisational realignment”, which the council says is ongoing.

This is beyond a farce. You should have job descriptions before you establish the roles, not afterwards. And certainly not seven months afterwards.

Its wasteful for a tiny Council to have seven Deputy CEs in the first place, and as it has taken more than seven months to do job descriptions for them, the conclusion is the Council is dysfunctional.