How to Manage a Voluntary Organization: The Complete Guide for the Non-Profit Sector - Hardcover

Perrin, Robert; Hussey, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749437804 ISBN 13: 9780749437800

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2003

Synopsis

This book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide to the key management issues specific to the not-for-profit sector and contains advice on the best course of action to take to improve efficiency and accountability in your organization.
How to Manage a Voluntary Organization provides practical advice on the day-to-day running of a voluntary organization. A wide range of examples and case studies feature throughout, from large high-profile organizations such as The Prince's Trust and the RNLI to small local charities. Also, useful models, checklists and 'reflection boxes' are included to help you think about your own real-life situation.

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About the Authors

Robert Perrin (Ph.D., University of Illinois--Champaign/Urbana) is currently Chairperson of the Department of English at Indiana State University (Terre Haute), after serving as Director of Writing Programs for seventeen years. He has won the University's Caleb Mills Award for distinguished teaching and the Theodore Dreiser Award for distinguished research, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Professor award. He has published numerous articles on composition and teaching and has published seven textbooks and research guides, including THE BEACON HANDBOOK (six editions) and HANDBOOK FOR COLLEGE RESEARCH (three editions).

About the author David Hussey is visiting professor of strategic management at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, and an author and consultant linked to the global CIMID SA organisation. He was with the Harbridge House Inc organisation for nearly 20 years, and for most of them was managing director of the European consulting and management development activities. His consulting skills in strategic management and HR drew upon his experience in industry in marketing research, strategic planning, and HRM. He was one of the founders of the Society of Strategic Planning, and is a director of the Japan Strategic Management Society, where he is one of a small number of foreign authorities invited to serve in this position. This is his 11th book as author or co-author, and he has edited 11 more, including Rethinking Strategic Management, Wiley, 1995, and The Implementation Challenge, Wiley 1996. He is editor of the journal Strategic Change and of Croner's Journal of Professional HRM. His consulting and educational work has taken him to many parts of Europe, North America, Africa and South East Asia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749437804
• ISBN 13: 9780749437800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320