I work for a charity trust and have been observing and listening to staff members concerns about the chair person working methods and behaviours. He tends to avoid telling trustees important information and tends to treat staff poorly. It appears nobody will stand up to him and seems to think that everything should be run his way. 

His wife has admitted in the past he has made employees cry. Many employees have resigned because of his attitude towards them and trustees were oblivious to these behaviours because they’re kept as arms length unless they’re needed. Don’t get me wrong, trustee meetings are frequent but certain issues are kept from them. 

Certain employees couldn’t deal with anymore and confided in a trustee who had to call a meeting of the other trustees while the chair was away on a break to talk about concerns of an employee, some trustee knew of his behaviour but don’t know how to tackle the issue because the chair does get things done, but I fear in the wrong way. 

He hates paying people for extra work he asked employees to do, he expects staff to volunteer hours, he expects them to do jobs that involve no training. He will buy equipment like projectors so he can watch football on a big screen. Yet argues with staff over H&S, buying toilet paper or won’t pay for sanitary and nappy bins to be taken away. He makes staff wheel bins out to the road on bin day hoping the local authorities staff will take it away with domestic waste. 

He talks down to staff, women employees mainly. He lies about everything when questioned, he’ll ask people to do jobs face to face so no evidence of being asked. There is so many issues with that I can’t begin to explain. All staff and trustees have no idea how to deal with him because he is so controlling and it’s getting worse.