New Prospects for Organizational Democracy? How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

Some interesting exceptions notwithstanding, the traditional logic of economic efficiency has long favored hierarchical forms of organization and disfavored democracy in business. What does the balance of arguments look like, however, when values besides efficient revenue production are brought into the picture? The question is not hypothetical: In recent years, an ever increasing number of corporations have developed and adopted socially responsible behaviors, thereby hybridizing aspects of corporate businesses and social organizations. We argue that the joint pursuit of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to non-democratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on an extensive literature review to document the relative lack of substantive discussion of organizational democracy since 1960. And we draw lessons from political theory, suggesting that the success of political democracy in integrating diverse values offers some grounds for asserting parallel virtues in the business case

HELIN Policy Governance Manual

HELIN Policy Governance Manual, 12/10/2014 revisio

THE HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT OF BALI REEF RESORT AT TANJUNG BENOA - BALI

Arifin Budi Susilo. 2010. The Housekeeping Department of Bali Reef Resort at Tanjung Benoa - Bali. English Diploma Program, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University. This report is based on a job training evaluation which was conducted at Bali Reef Resort. It located on Jl. Pratama Tanjung Benoa, one of tourism areas in Bali. The objectives of this report are to describe how the Housekeeping Department works and to find out the problems faced. This report explains the division of labor in the Housekeeping Department. In doing its job, the Housekeeping Department is divided into six main sections, they are: Floor Section, Public Area Section, Swimming Pool Section, Gardening Section, Linen and Uniform Section, and Florist Section. Each main section has its own work area and responsibility. They also have several officers with their own job description. This report is also intended to find out the problems faced by the Housekeeping Department internal and external. Therefore, several solutions are proposed to solve the problems. Based on the discussion, the writer suggests that the hotel should improve its work quality by changing the damage equipment with the new one and pay more attention to the employees by giving extra salary if the employees have to work overtime. This way expected to make the hotel be able to compete with the other hotels

Getting to Outcomes: A User's Guide to a Revised Indicators Framework for Education Organizing

Research for Action (RFA) has been among those engaged in education organizing research and has drawn on its previous efforts–as well as the knowledge built by community organizing groups and other researchers–to create this User's Guide. The Indicators Framework can serve as a tool to help education organizing groups engage in self-reflection and evaluation of their efforts. Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER) commissioned RFA to update its theory of change, developed in partnership with CPER in 2002. The theory of change explains how education organizing works to strengthen communities and improve schools. Accompanying this theory of change was a set of indicators that could be used to assess the outcomes of the organizing process. This updated Indicators Framework reflects the adaptations education organizing groups are making in response to the new education realities, and to over a decade of experience working to change schools in low-income neighborhoods

Green of Another Color: Building Effective Relationships Between Foundations and the Environmental Justice Movement

The aim of this report is to help forge more effective partnerships between and within the environmental justice movement and the philanthropic community. In particular, the report should serve as an important educational tool for current and potential funders by: (1) providing information regarding the importance and accomplishments of the environmental justice movement over the last ten years, including those of the strategic networks; (2) demonstrating the gross underfunding the movement by the philanthropic community in general, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association membership in particular, in relation to other segments of the environmental movement; (3) providing recommendations as to which grantmaking practices would be most appropriate given the structure and needs of the movement, (4) discussing the importance of diversity and inclusive practices in foundation settings for improving environmental grantmaking practices and for overcoming the funding barriers currently confronting the environmental justice movement; and (5) evaluating the manner in which grantmakers can better utilize their institutional clout to support the work of the environmental justice movement beyond the disbursement of grants by undertaking mission-related investing strategies and mission-related shareholder actions against socially and ecologically irresponsible companies. We envision this document as being a valuable resource for foundation staff, officers, and board members, as well as individual donors and participants in the environmental justice movement

Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History

Feminist art historians reassessed French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a period in which her work coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical project intersects with exhibitions that give prominence to Morisot’s work. Critical reviews by Morisot scholars argue that more frequent display of the artist’s work has not correlated to nuanced interpretation. Moreover, prominent feminist scholars and museum theorists maintain that curators virtually exclude their contributions. Attending to these recurrent concerns, this thesis charts shifts in emphases and inquiry in writing centered on Morisot to survey the extent to which curators convey new constructions of her artistic, social, and historical identities. This analysis will observe how distinct exhibition forms—the retrospective, the Impressionism blockbuster, and the gendered “women Impressionists” show—may frame Morisot’s work differently according to their organizing principles

THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT OF NOVOTEL SOLO

The aims of this final project report are to present the importance of Housekeeping Department of Novotel Solo and to present the problems and solutions of the Housekeeping Department of Novotel Solo. Direct interview and library study are used to collect the data. The activities during his job training are as follows: wearing the uniform, taking presence and briefing, preparing the guest supplies, cleaning the room, taking a break, returning the guest supplies to the Housekeeping Department, and finally preparing to go home. The Housekeeping Department of Novotel Solo is one of hotel departments which has duties and responsibilities to maintain freshness, neatness, tidiness, and cleanness of hotel area. During the job training period, the writer found several problems, such as most of the Housekeeping staffs cannot speak other languages than English, many staffs cannot speak English fluently, limited work time, limited numbers of the Housekeeping staffs, many staffs working out of procedure, lack of amenities supplies. The writer suggests holding language training programs, holding upgrading programs, adding more staff members, and controlling the amenities regularly

"Europeanization of the core executive in the transition from circumstances of EU accession to full EU membership"

Only recently have the direct and indirect ‘European’ impacts (of political outcomes at the European level) on domestic political systems started to be studied (i.e. Spanou, 1998; Bulmer and Burch, 1998 and 2001; Kassim, Peters and Wright, eds. 2000; Goetz and Hix, eds. 2001; Knill, 2001; Schneider and Aspinwall, eds. 2001; Goetz, ed., 2001; Laffan, 2001b). For the purpose of our paper, we understand Europeanization processes as the impacts of EU integration on specific countries' political institution-building and institutional adjustments including constitutional and administrative law, as well as on how the political system is organized and operated. This paper focuses on one of the three alternative perspectives of the ‘top-down’ approach to studying the processes of Europeanization as defined by Goetz (2001), namely the linkage perspective. Obviously, for recent new EU member states it is the national administrative adjustments for negotiating accession with the EU that have so far prevailed over national administrative adjustments made in the circumstances of (very recent) full EU membership. Our comparative research of three EU accession states/recent new EU member states, in line with a dynamic view, include Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. While taking some key common features of the selected countries into account, the countries’ idiosyncrasies including variations in the institutional adaptation of their core executives relying on research findings in the framework of the European project ‘Organizing for Enlargement’ are investigated. Preliminary comparative research findings and tentative conclusions on variables that may cause variations in the adaptation of national administrations to the European integration challenges in the three (otherwise in some respects) relatively similar countries are presented