What great management looks like in an open organization.
Great managers are critical to business results, organizational culture, and employee experience. The Open Management Practices (OMPs) are intended to help managers succeed in their critical role. The OMPs clarify the role of the manager and describe what great management looks like in Red Hat's open culture. Red Hat shares these practices because many are applicable to other open organizations, who can adapt them to fit their respective industries and organizational cultures.
Red Hat released the Open Management Practices internally in 2019, after more than a year of collaborative development. Using the Open Decision Framework, more than 1,300 Red Hat associates, managers, and senior leaders across every organizational function and geographic region contributed to the discovery of the practices and created the document's initial release. The Open Management Practices underscore Red Hat's commitment to delivering an exceptional associate experience, sustaining open culture, and driving innovation for its customers. Red Hat made the work globally available as an upstream open source resource in early 2020.
Understanding the benefits and challenges of applying open principles to people management is a responsibility everyone shares. Managers have an enormous impact on people's experience of an organizational culture and the way that culture contributes to the organization's ability to achieve business results. Associates play a critical role in supporting open management by providing thoughtful feedback to their managers. As such, the Open Management Practices are meant for an organization's managers and individual contributors alike.
The Open Management Practices are available in several languages, including:
- English
- Spanish (coming soon)
- Mandarin (coming soon)
- Korean (coming soon)
- Japanese (coming soon)
- French (coming soon)
- Brazilian Portuguese (coming soon)
The Open Management Practices are available under the terms of a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license. All copyrightable contributions to the Open Management Practices are accepted under the terms of this same license. Modified versions must remove all Red Hat branding, unless you are creating an official translation, making a pull request, or offering a suggestion for improving the original.