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An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Use Of Social Media By United Way Of Westchester And Putnam, Dian Xi, Ziyun Gao
An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Use Of Social Media By United Way Of Westchester And Putnam, Dian Xi, Ziyun Gao
Master in Public Administration Theses
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Motivated To Serve: An Empirical Examination Of Motivation And Consequences In The Public And Nonprofit Organizations, Sung Min Park, Jessica Word
Motivated To Serve: An Empirical Examination Of Motivation And Consequences In The Public And Nonprofit Organizations, Sung Min Park, Jessica Word
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
This article draws upon a sample of nonprofit and state government managers to examine the role that service motivation plays in both sectors. The research addressed three main questions: 1) what are the main motivational types and constructs of managers in the public and nonprofit sectors? 2) what differences exist between these sectors in terms of level of motivation? And 3) what are the long-term and short-term consequences of different types of motivation? Our findings suggest that in many ways public and nonprofit managers are similar in terms of the importance of intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards. Public and nonprofit managers …
The Growth Of Nonprofit Accounting And It's Impact On Human Services, Roger A. Lohmann
The Growth Of Nonprofit Accounting And It's Impact On Human Services, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Changes in nonprofit accounting standards and practices have spearheaded a quiet revolution in financial management practice in social agencies and the delivery of human services during the past three decades. These changes have gone hand-in-glove with other changes in the political arena to dramatically transform the ways in which human services are organized and delivered. At the core of this transition has been the movement from fund to enterprise accounting, together with such larger political developments as the expansion of grant-based relations with government into the performance management environment of purchase of service contracting.