MEETING THE CHANGE CHALLENGE - MANAGING GROWTH IN THE NONPROFIT AND PUBLIC HUMAN-SERVICES SECTORS

The current economic climate has been particularly hard on non-profit and public human services organizations, frequently resulting in manag ing organizational decline. The authors believe that the dominant conc ern should be with fostering organizational growth. To this end, they suggest that nonprofit board members and executives, as well as public sector leaders, need to concern themselves with the concurrent manage ment of two agendas; Running the Shop and Meeting the Change Challenge . This can be done effectively through the use of STRATEGIC ISSUE MANA GEMENT, which is a set of techniques that represents a blend of tradit ional strategic management and change management approaches.