NGOs and Sustainable Management

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NGOs and Sustainable Management
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Defining Sustainabilityby Lisa Cannon

• What are different categories of sustainability?
• In what ways do different stakeholders define the
  meaning of sustainability differently?
• What are key questions NGO should ask themselves
  in drafting their own definition of
  sustainability?
• What are implications of defining sustainability
  for NGOs?

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Options, Strategies, and Trade-offs in Resource
Mobilization

• How are NGOs affected by current context of
  official aid supply or supply-side dynamics?
• Does it have similar or different impact on
  NNGOs and SNGOs? Who has the advantage in this
  situation?
• What has been the environment that determines
  mobilization NGO resources locally?
• What are characteristics of the demand-side of
  NGO development work?
• What are issues that NGOs need to examine in
  their choices for resource mobilization?
• What strategic options do NGOs have as they seek
  to reduce dependency and vulnerability status?
• Based on the authors trade-offs model, discuss
  how the nature of the resource base determines
  what NGOs do and their distance from the state.

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Leadership and Management by Allan Kaplan

• What does the author mean by leadership is an art
  and science (discipline)?
• What important aspects do we need to know to
  practice leadership effectively?
• What are necessary functions of leaders?
• According to the author, how are leadership
  functions different from management functions?
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• How do we adapt this knowledge to fit with NGO
  context?

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Human Resource ManagementBy Alan Fowler

• In what ways is HRM of NGOs similar and different
  from other organizations?
• - motivation
• - incentives
• Who are CAs and expatriates?
• Discuss three processes to manage NGO staff
• Selection
• Forming
• Organizational empowerment