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J. Steven Otts Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management is a collection of the most insightful and most recent readings about the challenges of managing a nonprofit organization in the United States. The anthology examines the distinctiveness of nonprofit organizations through the writing of scholars, consultants, and practicing executives. It focuses on governing, leading, and managing nonprofit organizations and how nonprofit organizations differ from both the public and private sectors. The 37 chapters speak to the most important functions, contextual factors and internal functions, concepts, and issues that face todays leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations. Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management is an ideal text for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate survey courses on nonprofit organizations and management.

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Author:   J. Steven Ott
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Westview Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780813367873

ISBN 10:   0813367875
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   26 January 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface I. Governance of Nonprofit Organizations 1. Governance of Nonprofit OrganizationsVic Murray (1998)2. Board of DirectorsStephen R. Block (1998)3. Setting Limits: Standards of Ethics and PrudenceJohn Carver (1997)4. Female Participation in Public Interest Nonprofit Governance: Yet Another Glass Ceiling? Ronald G. Shaiko (1996) II. The Legal Framework 5. Developments in the Law: Nonprofit CorporationsHarvard Law Review (1992)6. The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Organizational, Operational, and Similar TestsBruce R. Hopkins (1998) III. Effective, Ethical Leadership 7. Executive DirectorStephen R. Block (1998)8. Ethics in Nonprofit Management: Creating a Culture of IntegrityThomas H. Jeavons (1994)9. Artful LeadershipMary Tschirhart (1996) IV. Strategic Planning and Management 10. Strategic PlanningJohn M. Bryson (1998)11. The Strategic Marketing Planning ProcessPhilip Kotler and Alan R. Andreasen (1996)12. Crafting StrategyHenry Mintzberg (1987) V. Fund-Raising: Generating Revenues 13. Fund-RaisingErna Gelles (1998)14. Diversification of Revenue Strategies: Evolving Resource Dependence in Nonprofit OrganizationsKaren A. Froelich (1999)15. Returns on Fund-Raising Expenditures in the Voluntary SectorAdrian Sargeant and Jurgen Kohler (1999)16. FoundationsElizabeth T. Boris (1998) VI. Entrepreneurship and Commercialism 17. Nonprofit EntrepreneurshipDennis R. Young (1998)18. Profits for Nonprofits: Find a Corporate PartnerAlan R. Andreasen (1996)19. Commercialism and the Road AheadBurton A. Weisbrod (1998) VII. Managing Under Government Contracts 20. Toward a Contract CultureNigel Gann (1996)21. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit OrganizationsSteven R. Smith and Michael Lipsky (1993)22. The Game of Contracted Services{C

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Steven J. Ott is a professor of political science and the Director of Public Administration Education at the University of Utah. He is the immediate past-president of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He has also authored and edited numerous books and articles regarding nonprofit organizations, administrative theory, organization theory, organizational behavior, and organizational culture.

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