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Author : Jarald Hage, Michael Aiken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Change in Complex Organizations written by Jarald Hage, Michael Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Peter Stroh
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603585818
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Systems Thinking For Social Change written by David Peter Stroh and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of facing our toughest problems."—Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline Concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning—for everyone! Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation. How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results. Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert. Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts on complex problems like: ending homelessness improving public health strengthening education designing a system for early childhood development protecting child welfare developing rural economies facilitating the reentry of formerly incarcerated people into society resolving identity-based conflicts and more! The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.
Author : Alnoor Ebrahim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609219
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Measuring Social Change written by Alnoor Ebrahim and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Yet we live in a world of rapidly rising inequality, where social sector services are unable to keep up with societal need, and governments are stretched beyond their means. Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders as they navigate this uncertain terrain: performance measurement. How can they track performance towards worthy goals such as reducing poverty, improving public health, or advancing human rights? What results can they reasonably measure and legitimately take credit for? This book tackles three core challenges of performance faced by social enterprises and nonprofit organizations alike: what to measure, what kinds of performance systems to build, and how to align multiple demands for accountability. It lays out four different types of strategies for managers to consider—niche, integrated, emergent, and ecosystem—and details the types of performance measurement and accountability systems best suited to each. Finally, this book examines the roles of funders such as impact investors, philanthropic foundations, and international aid agencies, laying out how they can best enable meaningful performance measurement.
Author : Ron Westrum
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Complex Organizations written by Ron Westrum and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia Rayner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198857454
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Systems Work of Social Change written by Cynthia Rayner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.
Author : Helmut K. Anheier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387939962
Total Pages : 1722 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Civil Society written by Helmut K. Anheier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 1722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently the topic of civil society has generated a wave of interest, and a wealth of new information. Until now no publication has attempted to organize and consolidate this knowledge. The International Encyclopedia of Civil Society fills this gap, establishing a common set of understandings and terminology, and an analytical starting point for future research. Global in scope and authoritative in content, the Encyclopedia offers succinct summaries of core concepts and theories; definitions of terms; biographical entries on important figures and organizational profiles. In addition, it serves as a reliable and up-to-date guide to additional sources of information. In sum, the Encyclopedia provides an overview of the contours of civil society, social capital, philanthropy and nonprofits across cultures and historical periods. For researchers in nonprofit and civil society studies, political science, economics, management and social enterprise, this is the most systematic appraisal of a rapidly growing field.
Author : John Eugene Haas
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Complex Organizations: a Sociological Perspective written by John Eugene Haas and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1973 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Complex Organizations written by Amitai Etzioni and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412956935
Total Pages : 1217 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Human Services as Complex Organizations written by Yeheskel Hasenfeld and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition looks at the many recent changes in the arena of Human Sevices Organizations.
Author : Bill Pasmore
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626564426
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Leading Continuous Change written by Bill Pasmore and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change has become constant, complex, multifaceted, and overwhelming. To meet this challenge, Bill Pasmore presents four keys to help leaders decide where and how to most effectively focus their change initiatives.
