Beyond The Bottom Line: How To Do More With Less In Nonprofit And Public Organizations
by Martin W. Sandler /
1998 / English / PDF
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This book brings to the management of nonprofit organizations and
public sector organizations the kind of concepts that have long
been applied to commercial firms. Management thinking has long been
concentrated on the problems of managing commercial organizations.
Authors Sandler and Hudson set out to study the best managed
nonprofit and government organizations and to determine what they
did to achieve their success. The authors found that there is a
close similarity between the management thinking of these
organizations and that of profit-making firms. Each type of firm
defined who their customers were and how to best serve them. They
looked for ways of selling their particular product. They formed
partnerships with other organizations in pursuit of their ultimate
goals. They encouraged innovation among their workers. They
diffused power down through the organizations to the lowest level
possible. They created an atmosphere that made their workers feel
valued. And they had extensive systems for communicating within and
outside the organizations.
This book brings to the management of nonprofit organizations and
public sector organizations the kind of concepts that have long
been applied to commercial firms. Management thinking has long been
concentrated on the problems of managing commercial organizations.
Authors Sandler and Hudson set out to study the best managed
nonprofit and government organizations and to determine what they
did to achieve their success. The authors found that there is a
close similarity between the management thinking of these
organizations and that of profit-making firms. Each type of firm
defined who their customers were and how to best serve them. They
looked for ways of selling their particular product. They formed
partnerships with other organizations in pursuit of their ultimate
goals. They encouraged innovation among their workers. They
diffused power down through the organizations to the lowest level
possible. They created an atmosphere that made their workers feel
valued. And they had extensive systems for communicating within and
outside the organizations.
The book develops these concepts in separate chapters and describes
the organizations the authors study as examples. Sandler and Hudson
are experienced writers who have produced a straightforward,
non-technical work that analyzes the special problems and concerns
that these organizations share and offers a set of effective
organizing principles to improve their management.
The book develops these concepts in separate chapters and describes
the organizations the authors study as examples. Sandler and Hudson
are experienced writers who have produced a straightforward,
non-technical work that analyzes the special problems and concerns
that these organizations share and offers a set of effective
organizing principles to improve their management.