Essays about: "volunteer leadership"
Found 5 essays containing the words volunteer leadership.
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1. Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as an organisational learning bridge for resilience building? A case study of Red Cross National Societies in the Caribbean
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Adaptive capacity based on organisational learning (OL) is at once a critical imperative facing humanitarian organisations in their mission to save lives and support communities most at risk; and inherently evidenced as an enduring weakness over the past decades. Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) are community-based risk assessments established for their utility in supporting communities’ iterative learning. READ MORE
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2. “I have the ability” - An explorative study into the volunteer leadership and followership of Neighbourhood mothers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis aimed to explore the immigrant women’s experience as Neighbourhood mothers within the project Stadsdelsmammor 2.0 in Helsingborg, and how leader and follower identities becomes prominent. READ MORE
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3. Idealized Paradise? : Leadership in international volunteer organizations in the sustainable development process
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)Abstract : In the sustainable development process, international volunteer organizations are rapidly increasing in developing countries but have become criticized for having over promising benefits and neocolonialism impacts on the local population. In the combination with a discussed inefficient leadership in these organizations, this study aims to understand how international volunteer organizations, with the focus on Mauritius, through leadership more efficiently can maintain their vision to contribute to long-term socio, environmental and economic sustainable development by managing volunteer participants in ways that lead to productive and satisfied volunteers and in its turn result in an improvement of project outcomes. READ MORE
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4. Understanding volunteer leadership within Non-Profit Organizations : A case study of Ung Cancer
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaperAbstract : There has been a striking upsurge of non-profit organizations all around the world and Sweden is not an exception. Non-profit organizations play an important role in our society and are gaining more and more space and attention. Numerous studies have been conducted on for-profit organizations, while studies on non-profit organizations are fewer. READ MORE
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5. “It is all about territory”: A study of a segregated group of Roma in Rome, Italy
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturantropologiska avdelningenAbstract : On 25th July 2008 to 4th November 2011 the Italian government activated a state of emergency due to the presence of ‘nomadic encampments’ throughout the nation, leading to the current urbanising plan named ‘The Nomad Plan’. The main objective of this plan is to transfer 6,000 Roma into 13 authorised camps monitored by guards and 24h video-cameras, located outside Rome's perimeter. READ MORE
