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WATER FOR SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC POLICY
This professional Masters project involved turning the Sustainable Water Coalition (SWC), an unincorporated group of Santa Cruz residents advocating the work of the two local water agencies, into a California Nonprofit Corporation and an IRS recognized 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. This paper examines the biophysical, human, and institutional systems surrounding water use in Santa Cruz County, California, and the roles that a nonprofit advocacy organization can play within that framework. These roles are illustrated through an exploration of citizen involvement and advocacy in the comparative cases of the scwd2 Desalination Program in Santa Cruz, California, and a proposed wastewater treatment facility in Los Osos, California. The paper also describes the step-by-step process of turning SWC into a California Nonprofit Corporation and IRS recognized 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as a response to the need for a nonprofit advocacy group supporting the work of the City of Santa Cruz Water Department (City) and the Soquel Creek Water District (District). The goals of SWC, the City, and the District include: promoting water conservation; protecting local surface water resources; maintaining riparian habitats for endangered species; resting and recharging overdrafted coastal aquifers to avoid seawater intrusion; and attaining a supplemental water supply to make the community more resilient in times of drought
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Learning organisation, affective commitment and cultural intelligence: the case of expatriates in the Gulf Co-operation Council countries
The economic development and diversity strategies in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries have created an attractive business environment to multi-national engineering and construction organisations. Those organisations heavily depend on expatriates who represent more than 90% of the workforce in the GCC countries. However, expatriates encounter several challenges due to the national culture and nationalisation policies, which affect their affective commitment. Organisations are now in a crucial need for a mechanism to improve expatriates' organisational affective commitment to be able to maintain their competitive advantage and to respond to the constant environmental changes quickly. This research explores the learning organisations role and moderating influence of cultural intelligence towards expatriates’ affective organisational commitment within organisations in the engineering and construction industry in the GCC countries. There is a growing interest in the learning organisation concept and its influence on work-related outcomes, including employees' retention and commitment. However, existing literature has mostly focused on Western, Far Eastern, and North American countries. The cultural factor has not been considered when attempting to implement the learning organisation models across boundaries. To address this gap, the research has adopted a pragmatic epistemology by adopting a variety of research methodological approaches at different stages. Mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies have been adopted as a complementary process to overcome limitations. The findings have illustrated correlations between learning organisation dimensions, affective organisational commitment, and cultural intelligence. Cultural intelligence moderates the correlation between learning organisation dimensions and affective organisational commitment. The findings are also essential to provide useful insights to inform policymakers, organisations, and Human Resource professionals of future thinking on managing individual talents in the GCC countries. The research is unique in exploring the learning organisation and cultural intelligence in the GCC countries offering a number of academic and practical recommendations on how to improve business practices and policies in the future