Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Kravis Leadership Institute

2004年1月 · John Wiley & Sons

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Well-grounded in theory, research, and practice, Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive resource that goes beyond traditional nonprofit management theory to offer the latest in cutting-edge thought on leadership for nonprofit organizations. The book offers a wealth of new directions and ideas for leadership and features chapters written by such well-known experts as Frances Hesselbein, Stephen Dobbs, Florence Green, and Jay Conger. Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations discusses the most compelling leadership challenges and issues for nonprofit organizations and

Shows that transformational leaders of nonprofits lead more effective organizations
Includes a comparison of highly functioning for-profit boards with boards of nonprofit organizations
Provides an analysis of dysfunctional boards
Discusses for-profit "organizations of hope" that provide important leadership for social change and responsibility
Suggests strategies for managing and motivating a volunteer workforce
Presents a model for leading nonprofit projects
Offers a valuable model for program evaluation in nonprofit organizations
Considers the ongoing development of nonprofit leaders
Includes strategies to develop leadership capacity

作者简介

Ronald E. Riggio is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of numerous books on the topic of leadership.

Sarah Smith Orr is president of Smith Orr & Associates in Pasadena, California. She is a consultant and coach for executives and organizations with a specialty in nonprofit leadership and for men and women making a passage through a life transition.