...the Edges Third Sector and the Third Way Barriers to the fulfilment of expectations of and from voluntary sector organisations under a New Labour government Dissertation for MSc Voluntary Sector Policy & Administration (SA475) June 2000 Department of Social Policy London School of Economics & Political Science Synopsis Voluntary organisations as a vehicle for volunteering, for active citizenship and for a healthier, civil society have become an important of New Labour’s thinking. The voluntary sector is also identified as a vehicle through which government priorities may be more effectively addressed in particular, measures to address social exclusion[1]. This dissertation considers the current state of the relationship between the voluntary sector and the Government and seeks to identify barriers to the fulfilment of this political vision in the context of one Department’s work.[2] The study discusses the findings in the light of the emerging thinking on the Third Way and the substantial body of work on contracting - the medium through which much of the relationship is conducted in the case of the DfEE. Whereas there is an apparent willingness to consider measures to overcome recognised barriers, there appears to be confusion about the extent to which goal deflection may have damaged the legitimacy of voluntary sector organisations. There is therefore uncertainty about which part of the voluntary sector (service delivery organisations, the community sector or social entrepreneurs)...
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...destination.The sector which attract higher inflow were services such as telecommunication and computer software and hardware.Beside that,another one is KDNK growth,employment.KDNK growth is Bank Negara Malaysia announce that KDNK the first half this year is to growth in average total 4.4percent for the second quarter.Secondly, we talk about the Politic is include in democracy. DEMOCRACY is a group that makes political decisions by some from of a collective procedure and majorities peoples choose party among the contesting. The party win should fulfill the party promises. After that, politic also incudes business of GLC. GLC has three type of business which is GLC digital media, GLC software and GLC business solution. The business also related to SME (small medium enterprise) which is micro enterprise, small enterprise , and medium enterprise. Thirdly, is about the Malaysia social. Social separate into two such as economic politic and demographic. Social economy is the third sector in economics and considered to have three sector which is the business private sector which is privately owned and profit motivated. Beside that the public sector which is owned by the step on behalf of the people of the state. Another one is the social economic that embraces by a wide range of community, voluntary and not for profit activities. The social economy spent economics activity in the community voluntary and social enterprise sector the economic activity likes any other sector includes ; employment...
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...FOUNDATION CHRP CL&D ASSESSMENTRecording, analysing and using HR information (3RAI)3RAI_F203A_HR_June – Core Unit Assessment – Version 3 June 2012Student name: | | CRITERIA | PASS/REFER | COMMENTS | LO1: Understand what data needs to be collected to support HR practices | 1.1 Explain why an organisation needs to collect and record HR data. | | | 1.2 Identify the range of HR data that organisations collect and how this supports HR practice. | | | LO2: Know how HR data should be recorded and stored | 1 2 3.1 Describe different systems for recording and storing HR data and the benefits of each. | | | 3.2 Explain legal requirements relating to the recording, storage, and accessibility of HR data. | | | LO3: Be able to analyse HR data and present findings to inform decision-making | 3.1 Analyse and interpret HR data. | | | 3 4.3 4.4 Present findings in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner to inform decision-making within an organisation. | | | ASSESSMENT OUTCOME | PASS/REFER | | Students should please note that the above Assessment Outcome for this Unit is provisional and is subject to Internal EHWLC verification (IV) and external CIPD Verification (EV). Tutor: Date: Tutor’s signature: Title of report: Centre: Ealing Hammersmith and West London College Module Name: 3RAI Submitted by: Nato Paksashvili Tutor: My name Date: CIPD...
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...Non-profit Sector Project has provided important data on the non-profit sector internationally. How has this data informed the development of theories of the non-profit sector?” Introduction The non-profit sector is essentially that part of social activity undertaken by non-governmental and non-profit organisations. Also known as the civil sector, public sector, voluntary sector or the third sector, this part of the economy is gone largely unnoticed but since the 1970s has become under investigation from scholars and economists alike who realised the sector’s large economic contributions. The industry subsequently began to expand; “Prompted by dissatisfaction with the cost and effectiveness of exclusive reliance on government to address the social welfare and developmental challenges of our time, efforts have been launched to find alternative ways to respond”. (Anheier and Salamon, 1992) Seemingly, citizens felt they could no longer rely on the government to neither solve their problems nor provide essentials. Accordingly this shifted the focus of attention to the emerging voluntary sector, which had long contributed to the alleviation of social problems on a global scale, but had long been overlooked in scholarly and economic analyses. Thus the third sector began to grow and became institutionalized in university based centres and academic departments. The unprecedented growth of the sector led to many governments sharing responsibilities with these voluntary institutions...
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...meeting are an important start. Bill Gates announced the formation of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, composed of philanthropists who will invest in public-private partnerships to invent and scale technologies. More than 20 countries led by the U.S. unveiled "Mission Innovation" and pledged to seek to double their government research-and-development budgets over the next five years to accelerate clean-energy innovation. Ten of the world’s largest oil and gas companies launched the "Oil and Gas Climate Initiative" to organize meaningful action through the sharing of best-practice information and other industry collaboration as well as to make investments in R&D and startups. These statements indicate that both the public and private sectors recognize that we live in a carbon-constrained world and that there will be a charge on carbon emissions, imposed through regulations or market prices or a combination of both. Thus, there is an imperative for industry to explore the commercialization of new innovative low-carbon technologies. Given the scale of the energy and climate challenges, the three initiatives are necessary but not sufficient. Why? Successful innovation must address technologies from creation to deployment. Take, for example, advances in battery technology. A battery that costs less than $100 per kilowatt-hour with a lifetime of more than 1,000 cycles would be a game changer for offering affordable and reliable renewable electricity across the world. Today’s lithium...
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...Job engagement is a relatively new construct in academic literature and an increasingly popular idea in practice. Proponents of Job engagement claim a strong positive relationship between engagement and business success, both at the firm and individual levels, and outcomes including retention, productivity, profitability, and customer loyalty and satisfaction. Job Engagement is a multi-faceted construct (Kahn, 1990). Although there is a great deal of interest in engagement, there is also a good deal of confusion. At present, there is no consistency in definition, with engagement having been operationalised and measured in many disparate ways. According to Kahn (1990), engagement means to be psychologically as well as physically present when occupying and performing an organisational role. Most often Job engagement has been defined as emotional and intellectual commitment to the organisation (Baumruk 2004, Richman 2006 and Shaw 2005) or the amount of discretionary effort exhibited by employees in their job (Frank et al 2004). Engagement vs Other Constructs Researchers have raised the issue if Job engagement is a rehashing of old ideas. It is also argued the definitions often sound similar to other better known and established constructs such as ‘organisational commitment’ and ‘organisational citizenship behaviour’ (OCB) (Robinson et al 2004). According to May et al (2004) engagement is most closely associated with the constructs of job involvement and ‘flow’ (Csikszentmihalyi...
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...Luhby. This article appeared on CNN Money, October 19, 2012, from the website http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/19/news/economy/women-jobs/index.html?iid=SF_E_River. The economic upswing is now becoming more balanced between the genders. The number of women employees has jumped 300,000 in the past six months, nearly the same amount as men. In September, each men and women saw a job gain of 57,000. It increased overall in the United States as a whole. As governments looked to become stricter financially, they reduced funding for job support initiatives, particularly subsidized child care programs that allow poor women to seek and retain jobs. Women were hit hard during the private sector, in schools which accelerated in 2011 after stimulus funds ran out. Governments were still shedding jobs after the private sector. Governments have finally begun to stem jobs losses over the past year. School districts started the strongest summer hiring since 2006, offering teaching jobs within the school(Tami Lahby). At this time women are still climbing their way to the top. It all comes down to women who are becoming more educated, are getting the jobs they deserve. The primary message within this article is that women were always treated with less concern when it came to jobs. Men seemed to benefit more when it came to working and having a steady income. More than majority of women are jobless and have fallen into poverty in the last four years. However, women are overcoming this drought. They...
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...wemakemoves123@gmail.com Jacqueline Kelleher、Pace University, NYC Campus、jk56646n@pace.edu Katy Kaestner 、Trinity University、kkaestne@trinity.edu ABSTRACT The processes and outcomes of a service learning project conducted by a group of five students and engaged with a nonprofit organization are described in this paper. The processes and outcomes are evaluated with respect to the effectiveness of service learning as an educational means and the contribution to the nonprofit sector made by service learning initiatives. The findings include the benefit of the initial ambiguity of the service learning project and the benefit of the project outputs to the nonprofit agency. It is concluded that researchers may need to figure out the absolute relationship between initial ambiguity and the effectiveness of a service learning project and that between project outputs and the benefits received by the organization concerned. It is also concluded that researchers need to study how to keep participants’ passion towards the nonprofit sector after completion of their service learning project. KEYWORDS Service learning, volunteering, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises 1. INTRODUCTION The primary goal of this paper is to describe the processes and outcomes of a service learning project conducted by a group of five students and engaged with a nonprofit organization. The processes and outcomes are evaluated with respect to the...
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...with a nonprofit organization are described in this paper. The processes and outcomes are evaluated with respect to the effectiveness of service learning as an educational means and the contribution to the nonprofit sector made by service learning initiatives. The findings include the benefit of the initial ambiguity of the service learning project and the benefit of the project outputs to the nonprofit agency. It is concluded that researchers may need to figure out the absolute relationship between initial ambiguity and the effectiveness of a service learning project and that between project outputs and the benefits received by the organization concerned. It is also concluded that researchers need to study how to keep participants’ passion towards the nonprofit sector after completion of their service learning project. KEYWORDS Service learning, volunteering, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises 1. INTRODUCTION The primary goal of this paper is to describe the processes and outcomes of a service learning project conducted by a group of five students and engaged with a nonprofit organization. The processes and outcomes are evaluated with respect to the effectiveness of service learning as an educational means and the contribution to the nonprofit sector...
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...To: | Colleagues of Rise Against | From: | Johnny Williams | CC: | Rise Against Staff Members | Date: | September 26, 2013 | Re: | Rise Against: Expectations for Success | Memo We are Rise Against, a nonprofit organization dedicated to relieving our country of gang violence through education, afterschool programs, community services, and community outreach through open discussion. In those discussions, we provide help to the youth, but we also perform research so that we can slowly diminish gang activity. Our mission is to bring communities together to rise against the destruction that gangs have cause and turning the negativity that these groups and individuals have caused into positive opportunity for bettering the community. Some of you may think you know what a nonprofit organization is but it is hard to say exactly what they do and how they do it. Nonprofits “vary enormously in scope and scale, ranging from informal grassroots organizations with no assets and no employees to multi-billion-dollar foundations, universities, religious bodies, and health care complexes with thousands of employees or members” (Renz, 3). Most of these organizations provide charitable, educational, and religious services but the law in the United States licenses them to run any kind of good or service on a non-profit basis. These nonprofit organizations ranges from large hospitals and universities that fund their school through tuition and fees but they also can be small organizations...
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...environment consists of demo-graphical factors, socio-cultural factors, political factors, geo-physical factors, government and legal factors. 5. Understand the organizational purpose of business 1.1 Identify the purpose of different types of organizations There are different types of organizations and mainly all kinds of organizations are divided in three sectors: public sectors, private sectors and voluntary sector organizations. The purposes of those organizations are not same. Public sector is owned and run by the government for the people. People pay taxes to the government and this money is used to finance most of the public sectors. The main purposes of public sectors organizations are to provide essential public services and to use resources well for the benefit of the community. Private sector businesses are owned and run by private individuals. Examples of private sector businesses are franchises, companies (private and public), partnership and sole traders. Purposes of private sector organizations are making profit, growing their business, increasing market share and maximize sales. Voluntary groups are not owned by any individual people. However, some will be...
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...2013) Marks and Spencer is a major British retailer which was founded in 1884 and operates 766 owned and franchised stores in the United Kingdom; and 418 owned and franchised stores in 51 territories in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Type of business M&S is an international business because it is located in various other countries with the United Kingdom and 418 owned and franchised stores in 51 territories in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. M&S is in the private sector organisation because it is part of the national economy made up of private enterprises. It includes the personal sector (households) and corporate sector (companies), and is responsible for allocating most of the resources within an economy. See also public sector (business dictionary, 2013) M&s is a large size business because there are more than 250 employees, M&S has up to 82,000 employees and the majority of the people are in the UK. M&s is in the tertiary sector because they are providing services to individuals and business an example of the type of service M&S would provide is they could provide fresh lingerie this would include: • Transporting the lingerie • Selling the lingerie in the stores • Advertising the lingerie (they could use manikins to advertise) (John Bevan et al 2010) Purpose M&S is main purpose is to make as much profit as possible, and to make sure customer are satisfied with their outstanding products. M&S make products that are sold...
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...Strategiefindung von Non-Profit-Organisationen DISSERTATION der Universität St. Gallen, Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften (HSG) zur Erlangung der Würde eines Doktors der Wirtschaftswissenschaften vorgelegt von Johannes Kunz von Zürich Genehmigt auf Antrag der Herren Prof. Dr. Torsten Tomczak und Prof. Dr. Antonin Wagner Dissertation Nr. 3136 Digicenter, St. Gallen 2006 Die Universität St. Gallen, Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften (HSG), gestattet hiermit die Drucklegung der vorliegenden Dissertation, ohne damit zu den darin ausgesprochenen Anschauungen Stellung zu nehmen. St. Gallen, den 17. November 2005 Der Rektor: Prof. Erst Mohr, PhD Vorwort Als die vorliegende Arbeit ihren Anfang nahm, war das Ziel klar abgesteckt: Die umfangreichen Erfahrungen des Autors im Bereich des erfolgreichen Managements von Kundenbeziehungen auf nicht profitorientierte Organisationen anzuwenden. Bereits im Rahmen der ersten Recherchen kamen allerdings Zweifel auf – fand sich doch schnell eine Vielzahl von Quellen, die sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten des Marketing von NPO befassen, darunter auch einige umfassende Werke zum Thema Kundenbindung. Das Ziel, einen neuen und auch einigermaßen nutzbringenden Beitrag zu leisten, wäre in diesem Kontext nur zu verfehlen gewesen. Ebenfalls verfügbar ist zahlreiche Literatur zur Organisation und zum Management von NPO. Was hingegen überraschte, war...
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...broad aims and objectives are. The aim is to maximize the profits for shareholders and owners. The nature of the private sector in a market economy means that consumers are best served if companies are competing to provide the best products and services at the lowest possible prices. 3. Write down the name of 4 private sector organisations. 1. Sole traders 2. Partnerships 3. Companies 4. Franchises Tesco Facebook JD sports Blackberry 4. Find out what the broad aims are of the Public Sector. The public sector’s aims and objectives are to provide services for the community at either local or national level. The primary objective of the public sector is to provide services such as refuse collection, schools, leisure facilities and health care, to their customers, which are ultimately the tax-payer. 5. Write down the name of 4 public sector organisations. * Police * School * Army * Ambulance 6. Find out what the broad aims of the Voluntary Sector. Maximise self-satisfaction. 7. Write down the name of 4 voluntary sector organisations. * Oxfam * Red cross * Love underdogs * Kids in Asia 8. Go onto the web and find out the aims and objectives for one of the private sector, public sector and voluntary sector organisations that you have listed above. Private sector: Tesco- To grow the UK core, To be an outstanding international retailer in stores and online, To be as strong in everything...
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...core purpose is to create value for customers to earn their lifetime loyalty. (Source: www.tesco.com). Tesco is Cancer Research UK Charity of the Year for 2012. They aim is to raise around £10million to help find the cure for cancer but also help keeping families together by prolonging lives. Cancer Research is therefore the leading charity to help patients suffering with cancer. Task 1: There are different aspects of business activity in the United Kingdom’s economy; this involves the Primary sector, Secondary sector and Tertiary sector. Primary sector involves extracting raw products from natural resources for example farming. Secondary sector is the main sector in the economy this includes industrial manufacturers of finishing products from raw material this includes both light and heavy industries. An example of secondary sector involves making plastic from oil. The final business activity is tertiary, tertiary sector is a voluntary or non-profit sector of the economy. These provide services to individuals and businesses. The two organisations I am going to describe the purposes of are Tesco and Cancer Research UK. Tesco’s and Cancer Research Up are two very different types of businesses. Tesco’s is a profit organisation while cancer is a non-profit organisation. Profit organisations rely on keeping running costs to a minimum. These running costs are the day-today costs that are needed to help run the organisation. For a profit to be made, the money received...
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