Strategic management for voluntary nonprofit organizations / Roger Courtney.

By:

Courtney, Roger

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizationsPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: 324 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0415250234
9780415250238
0415250242 (pbk.)
9780415250245 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

658.048 COU

LOC classification:

HD62.6 .C686 2001

Contents:

1. An Introduction to Strategic Management and the Nonprofit Sector -- 2. The Development of the Nonprofit Sector -- 3. Professional Management in the Nonprofit Sector and it's Critics -- 4. What is the Nonprofit Sector -- 5. The Development of Strategic Planning and Strategic Management Concepts -- 6. What is an Excellent Organization? -- 7. What is Strategic Management and is it Effective? -- 8. The Use of Strategic Planning and Management in the Nonprofit Sector -- 9. Strategic Planning Models and Techniques in the Nonprofit Sector -- 10. Strategic Options for Nonprofit Organizations -- 11. Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness -- 12. Summary and Conclusions.

Review: "This book fills a niche for a UK/European text which provides a much-needed summation of strategic management issues as they relate to nonprofit organizations. Addressing both the academic theory and current practice of strategic planning and strategic management in relation to this important sector in the UK, Europe and the USA, it serves as a valuable antidote to those general strategy texts which relegate the treatment of nonprofits to their closing chapters or even appendices. The authors assessment of the ways in which this particular sector has responded to recent events - by adapting, borrowing or reinventing key strategies - also represents important reading in its own right."--BOOK JACKET.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The voluntary nonprofit sector is now involved in all aspects of people's lives. The management of such organizations has never been of more interest than it is now, and the sector as a whole is in a period of great change. Well-meaning amateurs are being replaced by highly committed and professional leaders, and one in every six employees in the service sector is now working in the voluntary sector. In this shifting climate, this enlightening book questions whether voluntary organizations should now be more business-like.

Helpful features of the text include:

* chapter introduction and summaries
* boxed features (including examples of mission statements, value statements and the strategy planning pyramid)
* detailed case-studies of nonprofit organizations (covering strategic issues, strategic planning processes and examples of the use of particular techniques)
* review and discussion questions
* extensive bibliography.

Presenting a unique insight into the theory and practice of strategic management for voluntary nonprofit organizations, this book will be of great interest to both practitioners and students of voluntary sector management.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book fills a niche for a UK/European text which provides a much-needed summation of strategic management issues as they relate to nonprofit organizations. Addressing both the academic theory and current practice of strategic planning and strategic management in relation to this important sector in the UK, Europe and the USA, it serves as a valuable antidote to those general strategy texts which relegate the treatment of nonprofits to their closing chapters or even appendices. The authors assessment of the ways in which this particular sector has responded to recent events - by adapting, borrowing or reinventing key strategies - also represents important reading in its own right."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

1 An Introduction to Strategic Management and the Non-profit Sector
2 The Development of the Non-profit Sector
3 Professional Management in the Non-profit Sector and it's Critics
4 What is the Non-profit Sector
5 The Development of Strategic Planning and Strategic Management Concepts
6 What is an Excellent Organization?
7 What is Strategic Management and is it Effective?
8 The Use of Strategic Planning and Management in the Non-profit Sector
9 Strategic Planning Models and Techniques in the Non-profit Sector
10 Strategic Options for Non-profit Organizations
11 Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness
12 Summary and Conclusions

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Roger Courtney is a consultant with his own consultancy firm, Courtney Consulting, in Northern Ireland. He has a wealth of managerial experience within the non-profit sector.