Nonprofit Management and Leadership Case Studies

Nonprofit Management and Leadership Case Studies is the long-awaited learning resource that presents 31 comprehensive case studies central to leadership and management in a variety of contemporary nonprofit organizations. All cases are written from a merged set of professional practitioners and academic experiences that infuse relevance, reality, interest, clarity and critical reflection.
Essential features:
- A differentiation between nonprofit and public organizations on mission, compensation, motivation, direction, strategic planning, and volunteerism
- Real-life situations that require thoughtful analysis
- Nearly 190 major concepts, theories and techniques embed in 31 case studies
- Case studies designed to engage individual and group analysis, discussion, dialogue, assessment and reflective learning
This book may serve as a standard text in undergraduate, graduate, or professional training programs. The incidents provoke interest in a large number of customary administrative and leadership concepts including: management issues, effective communication, compensation, volunteerism, community relations, contract administration, delegation of authority, diversity, discipline, recruitment, selection, training, social media, affirmative action, fiduciary responsibility, benefits, fundraising, immigration, internship program management, conflict resolution, nepotism, marketing, outsourcing, privacy and confidentiality, staff relations, equal employment, workplace-discrimination, strategic planning and philanthropic organizations.

C. Kenneth Meyer is an author of nearly a dozen books on public personnel management, public management practice, violence in American society,public administration and public policy. He has published nearly 100 scholarly articles on a range of topics including: effective and efficient government, program evaluation, workplace violence, organizational training and development, policy evaluation, and public participation strategies. During C. Kenneth Meyer s 37 years of teaching at the university level, he has taught more than 45 diverse courses for the public administration field including public administration, public policy, research methods and statistics, empirical theory, international policy, American government, politics and public participation. Among these courses is an international award-winning comparative public management and public policy class incorporating a European study abroad component. The class is focused specifically on identifying the best worldwide practices in the public, non-profit and private sectors. The information learned and resources gathered from these identified best models and best practices are incorporated in the cases presented in these two new must have teaching resources, Managing America s Organizations and Managing Public Service Organizations. As an invited speaker, presenter and host for more than 50 presentations around the world, C. Kenneth Meyer keeps an active schedule speaking and consulting throughout North America, Europe and Asia.