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Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This highly accessible text takes into account the organizational dynamics that readers are likely to have experienced and provides them with the conceptual tools for reassessing their understanding and considering how to act on their new insights. Renowned scholar Armand Lauffer shows readers how to apply organizational theories to challenges they confront at work, and to uncover other challenges they may not yet be aware of.
Professionalism and Volunteerism
Professionalism and Volunteerism
A Volunteer Core or a Volunteer Corps
The meeting had gone all wrong. Following the success of the neighborhood fair, Yolanda, now the new exec at ViVa, recommended to the board the creation of a neighborhood volunteer corps. The board was composed, equally, of old-timers and newcomers. The “vets” included some of ViVa's founders, Black women who had established the agency as a co-op 25 years earlier. Newcomers were not only relatively new to the neighborhood, but also to the United States. Although she'd expected some questions, Yolanda was totally unprepared for the opposition to her ideas and the emotionality of the response of some board members.
“Building a volunteer core for community events like the fair, yes. But a volunteer corps ...
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