strategic management

[...]... tools of management to bear on the religious organization.2 There are substantial areas of overlap between nonprofit and for-profit management Running the American Red Cross, however, is not exactly like running IBM, and it is important to keep in mind the differences between the two organizations as well as their similarities as we proceed to develop tools for strategic management 3 4 Strategic Management. .. organizations face to find effective management methods]) In this book, we explore strategic management in the nonprofit In the last several decades, the management of nonprofit organizations has become an increasingly rich terrain for academic work in the social sciences As our knowledge of these organizations has deepened, so has our sense of both the applicability of management principles developed in... within the sector in terms of purpose1 of the nonprofit, tax status and regulatory oversight As we develop an approach to strategic management in this book, we will use this variety to enrich our discussion The Management Process: A Road Map of the Book This book describes the strategic management of nonprofits It takes us from setting the mission of the organization all the way to evaluating how well the... useful to lay out the pieces of the management process and see how those pieces are connected Figure 1.2 is a summary schematic of the process of strategic management as it might be used by a nonprofit organization In the large box on the left-hand side of the figure, I have represented the first task of management: setting the goals of the organization The central strategic question facing an organization—any... business with the goals of a shareholder in mind We will begin our exploration of nonprofit management with the mission statement in Chapter 2 How do a group of individuals, at the start of an organization's life, decide and make concrete what that organization 12 Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations Figure 1.2 Management Schematic should be doing? In the absence of shareholders, whose goals should... the management process and feed into the evolution of goals of the organization In the for-profit world, one of the major factors that influences the likelihood of an organization's success is the behavior of its rivals By and large, in the for-profit world, firms prosper in situations in which the goods and services they produce cannot be produced at equal costs by other competitors Thus, strategic management. .. typically involve resource allocation decisions, and often include management control and incentive systems At this point strategy moves well beyond lofty vision to concrete plans for implementation Chapters 5-10 cover these operational tasks of management, organized by major functional area We begin in Chapter 5 with human resource management, including in our discussion both staff and volunteer development... difficult to judge and because they rely for the production of these 14 Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations goods and services on a largely professional and volunteer staff, much of the current new work in labor and information economics will be especially pertinent Chapter 6 introduces another part of the nonprofit management team, the board of trustees Interestingly, nonprofit organizations... which the special legal and tax treatment of the nonprofit influence management The definition of a nonprofit organization, however, goes beyond the formal legal designation When we think of nonprofit organizations, we normally think of a constellation of particular characteristics These characteristics, in turn, help to define the management problems of the nonprofit and help to distinguish them from... United States Percentage Social Service Community, civic Education, research Health Care Arts and Culture Religious 9.4% 3.9 17.9 49.9 1.9 17.0 Source: James and Rose-Ackerman, 1986, 6 and 14 6 Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations Table 1.2 Distribution of Nonprofit Activity in Sweden, 1979 Share of Nonprofit Expenditures (%) Education Culture and Recreation Health Religion Other 35 37 .