Fundraising Management

Effective Fundraising Management, by Kathleen S. Kelly. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1998. 663 pp., $49.95 cloth. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management, by Stanley Weinstein. New York: Wiley, 1999. 307 pp., $49.95 cloth.     

Business Management

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“城市经营”中的资金筹集与管理机制

随着我国城市建设的迅速发展,城建资金短缺问题日益严重,已成为制约我国城市建设可持续发展的“瓶颈”。尽管各级地方政府想尽办法筹集城建资金,但筹集到的资金仍满足不了城市快速发展的需要。城市建设所需的巨额资金从何而来、如何有效管理成了摆在我们面前的一大难题。城市经营作为一种全新理念,不仅为筹集城建资金提供了一种新的思维方式,也为促进城市建设的快速发展创造了条件。所谓城市经营就是指在市场经济条件下,政府充分运用市场机制和市场规律,采用市场化的方法来解决城市建设和管理中存在的各种问题,满足人们对城市环境各种需求的…     

Social Media Management

Do foundations effectively use social media to engage stakeholders? Do usage and engagement vary by foundation type? This article has been written to stimulate discussion and research about social media use and user engagement by foundations beyond measuring social media presence. We analyzed Facebook usage and stakeholder engagement for three types of foundations: community, corporate, and independent grant‐making foundations. We found that although community foundations are more likely to have a social media presence, corporate and independent foundations are more likely to use Facebook and to effectively engage stakeholders. Findings illuminate the need to understand social media usage and engagement in addition to presence. We discuss potential benefits of social media use and provide practical communication management recommendations for nonprofit practitioners.     

Implementing Disability Management

Summary

Disability management is a growing domain of practice and consultation for EAP professionals as organizations attempt to control escalating disability-related costs. It is defined as a systematic, cohesive, and goal-oriented approach that seeks to (a) minimize the impact that reduced functioning may have on an individual'S social and vocational roles and (b) maximize the health of employees in order to prevent disability or further deterioration when a disability is present. This paper reviews the essential components of disability management culled from the recent literature, highlighting how they should be implemented to achieve positive outcomes. Studies and data are presented that underscore the many benefits of implementing disability management for both organizations and disabled employees.     

Testing How Management Matters in an Era of Government by Performance Management

Public administration finds itself in an era of government byperformance management, which is reflected in the widespreadassumption that management is a key determinant of performance,and that it is reasonable to expect managers to measurably improveorganizational effectiveness. This article joins a growing literaturein seeking to conceptualize and empirically test how externalenvironmental influences and internal management factors combineto create performance, relying on data from the 2002–2003National Administrative Studies Project (NASP-II) survey ofstate government health and human services officials. We categorizemanagerial efforts to facilitate organizational performanceas determined either through their interactions with the organizationalenvironment, or through employing workable levers to changeinternal organizational culture, structure, and technology.Among the external environmental variables we find that thesupport of elected officials and the influence of the publicand media have a positive impact on effectiveness. Among internalmanagement choices, the ability to create a developmental organizationalculture, establish a focus on results through goal clarity,and decentralize decision-making authority are all positivelyassociated with organizational effectiveness.     

Management of premature menopause

There has been some confusion among women and health professionals since the publication of the Women's Health Initiative and Million Women studies about the management of premature ovarian failure (POF). Both studies were undertaken in women aged 50 and over, and cannot be extrapolated to their younger counterparts, who would normally be producing their endogenous estrogen, since they have functioning ovaries. Estrogen-based replacement therapy is the main stay of treatment for women with POF and is recommended at least until the average age of natural menopause (52 years in the UK). This view is endorsed by regulatory bodies such as the Committee on Safety of Medicines (now the Commission on Human Medicines) in the UK. No evidence shows that estrogen replacement increases the risk of breast cancer to a level greater than that found in normally menstruating women, and women with POF do not need to start mammographic screening early unless other risk factors are present, such as family history.     

Factors Attracting Individuals to Nonprofit Management over Public and Private Sector Management

Little research has sought to identify the distinct advantages that nonprofits offer employees, particularly managers. Drawing upon Weisbrod's theory of managerial sorting (1988), we test a series of hypotheses about the differences among nonprofit, public, and for‐profit organizations that may explain the preference of managers to work in one sector over the other. We use pooled cross‐sectional data from the General Social Survey to test managerial sorting. We find many similarities in the perceptions of managers in the nonprofit and public sectors as compared to the for‐profit sector. However, when we examine the sorting of managers into nonprofit versus public sector jobs, we find differences in work environment. Compared to those working in the public sector, managers in nonprofits report greater freedom in deciding how to carry out their job functions, more control over their work schedules, and greater opportunities for pay increases. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the practice of nonprofit management.     

Evolving Management Structures:

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Management and Succession:

Aspects of management and succession in any business can be analysed as though they involved intergenerational family relationships, whether in fact or by metaphor. Summaries are provided of research on management of offspring and intergenerational succession in business families and then extended metaphorically to managament and succession when the people involved are not relatives. Metaphoric analysis leads to a discussion of family of origin intrusions into work situations and the issues involved in succession when a successor and person succeeded are markedly different in age.     

The Management of Change

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浅谈如何规范项目管理中的工程承发包行为

介绍项目承包必须具备的条件、工程承包的类型和施工分包单位的选择。     

Queering Management and Organization

This article makes connections between ‘queer’ theory and contemporary thinking about management and organization. The article contains a re‐presentation of queer, particularly the work of Butler and Sedgwick, and a discussion of the potential implications of queering for managers, managerial practices and the science of management. Most importantly, the article is also concerned with authority claims — both personal and institutional — and the relationship between (critical) theory and (critical) practice.     

Body and Management Pedagogy

In this article I explore the impact of bodies in management education — why they have been ignored and what possibilities may be created when we understand them better. Bodies — including gestures, stature, posture and voice — shape and constrain how teachers and students act, what they think and what is taken away. The bodies of male and female teachers and students occupy different spaces and carry contrasting significations, resulting in different repertoires of embodied and disembodied pedagogical styles. Drawing on feminist scholarship, organizational research and my own bodily experiences and observations in management teaching, and despite the myth of disembodiment in rational classrooms, I suggest management pedagogy increasingly assumes and celebrates particular bodily performances. Rather than lament the constriction of stereotypical body regimes, I argue that making bodies more visible in management pedagogy has liberating possibilities for teachers and students and their learning.     

Management consulting and evaluation

The basic functions and procedures of management consulting are contrasted here with formal program evaluation. A case example further illustrates the differing approaches used in programmatic problem solving. The similarities and differences between these two professional specializations are highlighted in order to understand better the unique but complementary contribution each makes to the improvement of program operations.