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Charity, Philanthropy, Public Service Or Enterprise: What Are The Big Questions Of Nonprofit Management Today?, Roger A. Lohmann
Charity, Philanthropy, Public Service Or Enterprise: What Are The Big Questions Of Nonprofit Management Today?, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
This essay takes a birds-eye view of the topic of nonprofit management, looking at what I see as the big issues of nonprofit management.
Occurrence Reporting And Processing Of Operations Information, M. Ruiz, W. J. Arthur Iii
Occurrence Reporting And Processing Of Operations Information, M. Ruiz, W. J. Arthur Iii
Publications (YM)
This procedure defines how to accomplish the following: • Establish the functional roles and responsibilities for the YMP Occurrence Report process • Identify reportable conditions and events affecting YMP • Notify appropriate management •Process decisions and actions relative to the reportable occurrence • Document the reportable occurrence and all relevant actions
Managing Conflict To Build Consensus, Christine G. Springer
Managing Conflict To Build Consensus, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
The article discusses views on dealing with conflict to build consensus in strategic management. Fostering conflict to improve decision making while building consensus so essential to effective implementation demands the stimulation of debate, keeping conflict constructive, ascertaining that the process is fair and legitimate and being able to reach closure.
Improving Disaster Response Efforts With Decision Support Systems, Steven M. Thompson, Nezih Altay, Walter G. Green Iii, Joanne Lapetina
Improving Disaster Response Efforts With Decision Support Systems, Steven M. Thompson, Nezih Altay, Walter G. Green Iii, Joanne Lapetina
Management Faculty Publications
As evidenced by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005, disaster response efforts are hindered by a lack of coordination, poor information flows, and the inability of disaster response managers to validate and process relevant information and make decisions in a timely fashion. A number of factors contribute to current lackluster response efforts. Some are inherent to the complex, rapidly changing decision-making environments that characterize most disaster response settings. Others reflect systematic flaws in how decisions are made within the organizational hierarchies of the many agencies involved in a disaster response. Slow, ineffective strategies for gathering, processing, and analyzing data can also …