Organizational Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-122
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Know How ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Composition And Structure ◽  
Organizational Empowerment ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Shed Light

Voluntary associations and non-profit organizations are the most common catalysts for empowerment processes and the exercise of community power. Yet, there are tremendous variations in scale, mission, composition, and structure among these organizations. How can stakeholders—from staff and volunteers to policymakers and funders—know how best to invest their efforts and resources? Organizational empowerment theory aspires to function as a framework that can shed light on these topics, yet it has inadequately considered how contemporary trends in political economy affect organizations and organizational networks. This chapter elaborates the characteristics of organizations and their networks of relations with other organizations that are conducive to building community power.

Community Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-155
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Organizational Empowerment ◽  
Sociological Work

Most have treated empowerment at the community level in vague terms. Scholars in community development and health promotion have identified domains of community empowerment, but these were designed for—and are infrequently used beyond—programmatic contexts. Others have drawn in concepts from social movement studies and sociological work on neighborhood social processes to understand community empowerment, yet these frameworks have not been linked to community power structure or to psychological or organizational empowerment processes. Chapter 6 therefore constructs a new conceptual framework for community empowerment. The intent is to bring empowerment theory closer to being able to realize its fundamental goals of acting as an integrated orientation for action and an infrastructure for systematic research.

scholarly journals Sustainabiility of Non-Profit Organisations; Organizational Development Process Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anis Suriany Che Mohd Shukree ◽  
Mohd Mursyid Arshad ◽  
Ismi Arif Ismail ◽  
Siti Noormi Alias
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Non Profit

scholarly journals Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308275X2110596
Author(s):  
Matthieu Bolay ◽  
Jeanne Rey
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
International Schools ◽  
International School ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
International Teachers ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

This article situates international expatriate schools in their cultural and political economy by drawing attention to the tensions between a cosmopolitan educational ethos and processes of social, economic and legal enclavement. Based on extensive multi-sited ethnographic research in the international school sector, we show how cosmopolitan claims of openness mirror a relative closure and ‘offshore-like’ enclavement. To do so, we build upon the notions of modularity and extractivism, which we use as heuristics to analyse social and spatial practices of defining boundaries. Gazing beyond the main foundational myth of international schools, we first outline their concomitant extractive roots. Second, we shed light on the conditions of international teachers’ circulation worldwide. Third, we examine the territorial entanglements and disentanglements that characterise international schools. Finally, we investigate the tensions induced by a cosmopolitan educational ethos whose discourse of inclusion is inevitably paired with practices of exclusion.

scholarly journals “I’ll Tell You What You Need to Know.” How Respondents Negotiate the Sense of Meaning- Making—Methodological Reflections from the Field Based on Ethnographic Study of Lesbian Parenting in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-139
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wojciechowska
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Know How ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Lesbian Parenting ◽  
Shed Light

The aim of this paper is to shed light on how various interactional and interpretational contexts arising from specific researcher—research participants relationship established in the course of doing ethnographic study on sensitive, and thus often enough resistant to immediate cognition, phenomenon, namely, lesbian parenting in Poland, as well as different ways of embracing these, may factor into the research process. Drawing on specific dilemmas I encountered while doing the study at hand—from engaging a hard-to-reach population that, in a sense, wished to be reached, and the consequences thereof; through being pushed out of the comfort zone as the women under study, in the wake of becoming acquainted with the analysis I offered, “switched” from narrating their “in-orderto motives” to reflecting on the “because motives” behind their actions; to contextualizing emotions arising as my response to experiencing the issues they face (on a daily basis), to name a few—my goal here is to discuss how different ways of collecting and analyzing data—in the context of developing rapport with the women under study—have had an impact on conceptualizing and (re)framing the data at hand.

scholarly journals Scaling-up local foods: commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Nost
Keyword(s):  
Local Food ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Community Supported Agriculture ◽  
Local Foods ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Food Hubs ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Food Commodities ◽  
Shed Light

Full-text, in-print version here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074301671400014XCitation: Nost, E. 2014. Scaling-up local foods: commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA). Journal of Rural Studies 34, 152-160.Non-profit, consumer, and government advocates are working to expand access to locally-produced foods as a way of addressing major social and ecological issues. Some activists, however, suggest that farms “scaling-up” production and distribution may lose sight of the movement's aims by circumventing a direct exchange between growing and consumer and by delivering “local” shares long distances. I argue that in order to answer whether scaling-up is misguided, we first have to understand how farms come to scale differently. I describe the varied practices that three community supported agriculture (CSA) farms in the Midwest perform in order to give their products market value as embedded in a specific socio-ecological context. I focus on three key moments of CSA that advocates are concerned about in scaling-up: 1) the employment of different kinds of labor; 2) operating within the seasons; 3) the management of sharer expectations about produce quantity and quality. As what I call commodity practice, farm decisions about these factors produce differently scaled local food commodities. These different practices are not necessarily incongruent with the aims of the movement. My main point in this approach is to advance an awareness of hybridity in local food institutions. As CSAs and other institutions like food hubs grow and evolve, a look at commodity practices can shed light on and confound some of the apparent contradictions in scaling-up.

Toward multinational enterprise (1969–80)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Wieters
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Multinational Enterprise ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Development Programming

The final chapter sheds light on CARE’s second internationalization throughout the 1970s, the establishment of CARE Canada and CARE Europe, as well as CARE’s drive towards multinational non-profit enterprise. It analyses CARE’s organizational development, programming innovation and CARE’s drive towards an even closer integration of food aid and long-term development planning and its stance towards the ongoing multilateralization of food aid during the so called world food crisis and afterwards.

Civic Engagement and Strategic Leadership for Organizational Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 774-788
Author(s):  
Robert W. Kisusu ◽  
Samson T. Tongori
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Financial Dependency ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

Community-based organizations (CBOs) are non-profit organizations established voluntarily by members in order to deliver specified services effectively. However, CBO development in Tanzania reported performing unsatisfactorily. This chapter highlights causal key problems and controversial and established solutions that can improve CBO development. Among the problems are financial dependency, weak managerial skills, low ICT coverage, gender inequality, poverty, and poor infrastructure. But the controversial issues are ineffective consultation between key actors and gender dominated by males. To achieve CBO development, the chapter notes the use of civic engagement, especially sensitization, awareness creation while strategic leadership focus on voluntary, sacrificial and compromising leaderships. The chapter concludes that CBO development in Tanzania is best to apply components of civic engagement and strategic leadership while the recommendation is to combine and integrate both civic engagement and strategic leadership with their essential sub-components.

The Rise of Empowerment

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Processes ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Early Influences

This chapter traces the rise of the term empowerment from its early influences through the 1970s and 1980s, when it became a topic of great interest to activists, policymakers, and those in the helping professions, through to contemporary empowerment theory and practice. Particular attention is paid to a multilevel framework for empowerment that has been advanced by community psychologists. This framework posits inextricable and context-specific empowerment processes and outcomes at the psychological, organizational, and community levels of analysis. This conceptualization has been influential in interdisciplinary scholarship and practice, yet work is still needed to coherently link this framework to the concept of community power, as well as to enhance its ability to illuminate dynamic organizational and community processes.

Civic Engagement and Strategic Leadership for Organizational Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Robert W. Kisusu ◽  
Samson T. Tongori
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Financial Dependency ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

Community-based organizations (CBOs) are non-profit organizations established voluntarily by members in order to deliver specified services effectively. However, CBO development in Tanzania reported performing unsatisfactorily. This chapter highlights causal key problems and controversial and established solutions that can improve CBO development. Among the problems are financial dependency, weak managerial skills, low ICT coverage, gender inequality, poverty, and poor infrastructure. But the controversial issues are ineffective consultation between key actors and gender dominated by males. To achieve CBO development, the chapter notes the use of civic engagement, especially sensitization, awareness creation while strategic leadership focus on voluntary, sacrificial and compromising leaderships. The chapter concludes that CBO development in Tanzania is best to apply components of civic engagement and strategic leadership while the recommendation is to combine and integrate both civic engagement and strategic leadership with their essential sub-components.

Organizational Development and Change Management Implement AR, AI, and PC for Steller Non-Profit Org.

2021 ◽  
pp. 512-529
Author(s):  
Marlena Daryousef
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Desirable Outcome ◽  
Action Research Study ◽  
Organizational Development And Change

Organizational development and change remains an issue, especially when communication and engagement among employees is lacking. This action research study identified issues and strategies essential to help with change management. The action research study focused on one non-profit organization by consulting with five employees with three years or more experience involvement in their local community for at-risk teens in Seattle, Washington metropolitan area. The researcher facilitated action research, appreciative inquiry, and process consultation to discover the issues Steller non-profit organization experienced, and moving forward to implement effective processes which can help them to achieve a desirable outcome.

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