“Critically discuss the contemporary challenges and opportunities impacting on the governance (the work of Boards) and management of Community Sector Organisations.”
please use Hudson, M 2009, Managing without profit: leadership, management and governance in third sector organisations in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney s one of the three references.
What are the key characteristics of Community Organisations? How are these characteristics reflected in organisational purpose, governance and approach? This assignment is about the nature of community organisations and the community sector. In addressing the task you should think about the stakeholders in Community Organisations (i.e. people who have an interest in and relationship to community oprganisations), their vision/mission, the types of challenges/demands/opportunities they face and the boundaries of the sector. You should also use examples to illustrate your points.
The following elements are the essential elements for this assignment, (please note also the comments above on knowledge generation and written competence). 1. The distinction between the Community Sector and other sectors (Market and Government) is made, using examples. 2. Challenges, opportunities and stakeholder interests are identified and described 3. The impact of these things on governance, purpose and approach is described 4. Critical understanding of the difference of the Community Sector from other sectors is discussed The elements should be addressed in keeping with the knowledge generation and written competence components described above.
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