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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"voluntary organisations"”.
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Voluntary Organisations and the 1981–6 Greater London Council
… Greater London Council (GLC) used grants to voluntary groups. In doing so, it makes visible part of an unnoticed history of how London was remade in the 1980s and creates an introduction for future studies of both the GLC and the organisations it supported. Part of this history is a vision …
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Sustainability in voluntary organisations : Exploring the dynamics of organisational strategy.
… of organisational sustainability in the voluntary sector, as a complex and dynamic phenomena inextricably linked to capacity for survival. In taking a holistic approach to exploring the dynamics of sustainability, the study considers the influencing factors, both internal and external, …
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Shared Leadership: An Exploratory Study taking a Stakeholder Approach in Voluntary Organisations
… functions of leadership within the context of voluntary organisations in the UK. What is intriguing about the study is that business and management research has focused mainly on ‘vertical leadership’ that stems from an appointed or formal leader as opposed to ‘shared leadership’ that is …
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Modelling Accountability: A Thick Interactive Approach to Transparency and Participation in Voluntary Organisations
… a systematic study of accountability in the voluntary sector. Existing studies of accountability tend to veer towards normative and prescriptive analyses, which fail effectively to model accountability mechanisms. They do not test the relationships between the diverse variables that can …
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Philanthropy and secularisation : the funding of Anglican religious voluntary organisations in London 1856-1914
… an examination of five Anglican home-missionary organisations which operated in the Diocese of London in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These five organisations were all entirely dependant upon the financial support of the Anglican laity to provide their revenue. The main thrust of …
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Citizenship, social work and disabled people in Malaysia
… and models; thirdly, disabled people and voluntary organisations in the Klang valley region of Malaysia. In this study a collaborative action research method was utilized and this has facilitated disabled people's participation in the research together with an opportunity to introduce the …
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Social capital and social entrepreneurship : analysing links and implications for sustainability in third sector organisations in West Bengal
… improve the efficiency of society. He considered voluntary organisations to be a significant source of social capital as they encourage the trust-based relationships required for collective action. Many authors argued that social capital development is context specific. Krishna (2002) found that …
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Mental Health Services and Social Inclusion in Remote and Rural Areas of Scotland and Canada: A Qualitative Comparison
… with mental health issues or the role of the voluntary sector in terms of its contribution to mental health service provision in rural areas. Thus, this PhD explores the experiences of rural mental health service users and providers in Scotland and Canada, and also considers the contribution …
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Religious communities and political participation among Chinese migrants in Australia
… involvement also connects immigrants to other organisations and individuals and the wider society and polity through the social capital embedded in the congregation, the civic skills fostered within the church and the opportunities provided for volunteering and civic involvement. The ethnic and …
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Management education and development processes : an analysis of their effectiveness in the workplace
… analysis.In addition, corresponding employing organisations were researched, in order to quantify to what extent learning transformation was taking place within the student's theatre of activities. Such transformation was assessed in terms of increased effectiveness, both from a personal and …
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Promoting Active Retirement: A Case Study Examining The Mobilisation of Social Capital to Achieve Desired Organisational Outcomes.
Community and voluntary organisations harness and develop network ties and resources, volunteerism and civic participation. Organisations contribute to society’s social capital stock and play a role in maintaining social cohesion, supporting civil society and generating social renewal. National …
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Mobilizing charity: non‐uniformed voluntary action during the First World War
This study proposes that the voluntary sector in the UK underwent major managerial and state‐directional change during the period of the Great War, as a concerted response to but also enabling it to make important contributions to the war effort. It provides an important challenge to that …
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The Motivation of Voluntary Sector Employees: A Study of the Relevance of Public Service Motivation
… to explore the values and motivations of voluntary sector employees. It does so in the context of increased outsourcing of public service delivery to the voluntary sector and questions regarding the existence of distinctive motivations amongst those employed in voluntary sector …
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More than Just a Roof over Their Heads Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of “New Australians” 1947-1960
… as the content of language lessons, the work of voluntary organisations, the introduction of kindergartens, participation in sport, the showing of films, and the celebration of commemorative events) this thesis shows that the process of assimilating new arrivals within migrant accommodation …
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Environmental and related interest groups in South Africa
… to provide information on interest groups or voluntary organisations which involve themselves in environmental conservation. The primary aim was to identify and list all those groups which together make up the environmental lobby in South Africa. Further aims were to determine the …
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Collaboration for children: leadership in a complex space. A voluntary sector perspective.
… across the divide between public and voluntary sectors in the context of children’s services in the UK. It explores how voluntary sector leaders ‘make things happen’ (Huxham and Vangen 2000) in this context, where the formal authority, control of resources, and decision-making appear …
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The responses to unemployment in the 1930's, with particular reference to South-East Lancashire
… dole'.The second part deals with the response of voluntary organisations, including the T.U.C. and Labour Party (outside Parliament), to the problem of the unemployed. From early 1932, the National Council of Social Service began to undertake the organisation of occupational centres for the …
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An exploration of implicit associations regarding mental Illness, self-reported internalised stigma, and their links to help seeking symptom thresholds amongst individuals experiencing depressive symptoms
… 35) were recruited from mental health teams and voluntary organisations. Participants completed self-report measures and two computerised BIATs, which measured implicit associations regarding mental illness compared to physical disability and implicit self-esteem. Results Contrary to the …
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Understanding sustainable development in the voluntary sector: a complex problem
… from all sectors of society, including the voluntary sector. There is an assumption by the UK government that voluntary organisations, as trusted agents of change, are well placed to help the poorest cope with the disproportionate impacts of economic and environmental unsustainability and …
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Cultural and Political Geographies of the AIDS Crisis in Ireland
… explores the practice of AIDS Quilting among voluntary HIV/AIDS organisations that have been operating within a context overshadowed by religious moralization, and shaped by an inequitable geographical distribution of disease. I begin by locating Ireland’s AIDS Quilting projects within the …
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