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Improving the Accountability and Responsibility of Professionals and Volunteers of Non-Profit Organizations’ Staff

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Hi you already finish the Proposal for Final Project and Annotated Bibliography for Final Project for me.
I will link those two assignment and the instruction for final report for you.

PA522 Human Resources

Final Paper Format

 

The class has now completed the most of the readings in our textbook and additional readings.  I want us to begin to pull your PA522 final paper into a format for presentation. Your final paper should include  some combination of the following and the Instructor leaves it to your discretion how you would like your paper organized.  Your paper should be 15 pages and may include your cover page, bibliography, and addendum.  You may have the following sections:

 

  1. Introduction to the Study
  2. Historical Sketch of the Study (or Problem)
  3. Features of Leadership (you may choose to exclude this section if the situation is too political)
  4. Methodology
  5. Literature Review (what is going on at other places and how was the dynamic managed and ultimately resolved)
  6. Recommendations
  7. Conclusion
  8. Exhibits (may include map, organizational structure, interview documents, questionnaire, timeline, et cetera)
  9. Your Biography

 

Please remember, this human resource assignment does not have to be exhaustive and complicated.  This project will serve as a template for work you may conduct in the future.  Your final presentation should include a visual presentation and you may use the visuals you have used in your past courses.

You may provide the Instructor with a hard copy the day of your final presentation or you may email me a copy or you may upload a copy to Blackboard.  The Instructor would appreciate a copy one week prior to the calendar end of the semester so your final grade may be recorded with the Registrar.  Good luck with your work!

 

 

 

Annotated Bibliography

 

Improving the Accountability and Responsibility of Professionals and Volunteers of Non-Profit Organizations’ Staff

Rominiecki, J. (2014, April 1). Embezzlement: It Could Happen To You. Retrieved from https://associationsnow(dot)com: https://associationsnow(dot)com/2014/04/embezzlement-it-could-happen-to-you/

Joe Rominiecki is formerly an editor with associationnow.com which has been keeping track of the performance of nonprofit organizations and offering advisory services. Rominiecki offers his insight on how nonprofits can avoid fallouts and navigate cases of embezzlement from employees even those in the highest managerial positions. In the article, Rominiecki draws the lessons from the case of Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and shows how swift actions taken by some senior executives helped avert impending collapse after an employee siphoned more than $5 million in a decade. The article led to a conviction and the insurance covering some of the lost monies. In the article, Rominiecki discusses how to fraud happens, how to detect it and prevention measures. He also details the steps management can take if fraud has happened to ensure the organization survives. This article has many lessons that can be mapped on to the HAI case on the preventative measures it ought to have taken to avoid collapse.

 

Tsipursky, G. (2016, June 7). How Can We Prevent Regret About Our Charity? Retrieved from https://www(dot)psychologytoday(dot)com: https://www(dot)psychologytoday(dot)com/intl/blog/intentional-insights/201606/how-can-we-prevent-regret-about-our-charity

Gleb Tsipursky runs a nonprofit known as Intentional Insights that helps other nonprofits to set and achieve their goals. He uses science to build an altruistic operational model for the nonprofits. Tsipursky has vast experience in advising firms to avert business disasters such as the one that befell HAI. He analyzes and discusses the issues of HAI as the ones that stemmed from cognitive biases such as horn’s effect and scope neglect that eventually led to the collapse of the organization. He discusses some ways in which nonprofits can adopt to ensure they avoid possible HR issues that could spell disaster. He argues that these cognitive biases go on to affect other nonprofits, but they can be forestalled by adopting measures to ensure effective altruism.

 

Newman, A. (2016, April 29). Missing Money, a Vicious Attack and Slow Healing for a Charity’s Leader. Retrieved from https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com: https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2016/04/29/nyregion/missing-money-a-vicious-attack-and-slow-healing-for-charitys-leader.html

Andy Newman is a reporter with the New York Times. He is one of the journalists who compiled a comprehensive story of the HAI in its last few months before its scandal broke out. In the article, Newman describes the extent of Kim Williams embezzlement and possible collusion with the board to siphon money from the organization. He also describes how the scheme was busted by the new executive dyer and how Kim Williams and his accomplices pushed back. In the story, it harbors a lot of details about what happened and helps show how the organization spiraled to bankruptcy due to cumulative costly decisions by the management. The story of sequence of events is instrumental in understanding the loopholes exploited by malicious employees to siphon resources from their employers.

 

MacIntosh, J. (2017, June 5). Coming back from bankruptcy: How we fixed Healing Arts Initiative. Retrieved from http://199.73.109.196: http://199.73.109.196/knowledge/coming-back-from-bankruptcy-how-we-fixed-healing-arts-initiative

This article authored by one of the partners in an organization that sought to take over HAI after filing for bankruptcy discusses the steps the organization took after bankruptcy. Through reflection on the state of the nonprofit, the author shows how HAI could have avoided the problem that snowballed and ran the organization the ground. It harbors many lessons on running a nonprofit from the eyes of a person who is also a partner to another nonprofit; Seachange Capital partners which help to provide funding, advice, and insight to help nonprofits complete transactions that increase their impact. Thus, the author has vast experience in dealing with nonprofits and how to navigate the issues that could destroy a non-profit. In the reflection on how Macintosh interacted with the HAI organization especially after bankruptcy, it describes the latter days of the organization which is seemingly the best-case scenario that would have happened to the organization.

 

 

References

MacIntosh, J. (2017, June 5). Coming back from bankruptcy: How we fixed Healing Arts Initiative. Retrieved from http://199.73.109.196: http://199.73.109.196/knowledge/coming-back-from-bankruptcy-how-we-fixed-healing-arts-initiative

Newman, A. (2016, April 29). Missing Money, a Vicious Attack and Slow Healing for a Charity’s Leader. Retrieved from https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com: https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2016/04/29/nyregion/missing-money-a-vicious-attack-and-slow-healing-for-charitys-leader.html

Rominiecki, J. (2014, April 1). Embezzlement: It Could Happen To You. Retrieved from https://associationsnow(dot)com: https://associationsnow(dot)com/2014/04/embezzlement-it-could-happen-to-you/

Tsipursky, G. (2016, June 7). How Can We Prevent Regret About Our Charity? Retrieved from https://www(dot)psychologytoday(dot)com: https://www(dot)psychologytoday(dot)com/intl/blog/intentional-insights/201606/how-can-we-prevent-regret-about-our-charity

 

 

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Improving the Accountability and Responsibility of Professionals and Volunteers of Non-Profit Organizations’ Staff
Introduction
In the world today, there are thousands if not millions of non-profit organizations each with its mission and vision. Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are not normal organizations. They do not have financial aspirations and are led or driven by the change they bring or make to society. As indicated by Othman et al. (7), they seek to “serve a social mission or deliver public benefit, and there is no distribution of profits to stakeholders of the organization.” However, for the most part, because they are not profit-oriented, often, these organizations are led by people who have no vision and these individuals have been known to run such organizations to the ground. Othman and his colleagues assert that often, because NPOs do not have financial profitability as their ultimate goal, an “NPOs management team is often not as experienced or skilled as those or organizations with a commercial purpose.” Therefore, the majority of these organizations are run by managements that do not understand the values of accountability and responsibility of professionals. Abraham (2) writes that “in an organization that values informal relationships, voluntary participation and ‘niceness’, the idea of explicit accountability may be somewhat alien.” For NPOs, this statement holds a lot of truth because everything has to be done in a way that appeals to the donors. So, proper procedure can be ignored as people seek to attract more donors and funding. However, as indicated in the case under study, accountability is key to the success of any organization in spite of its goals. It is thus crucial for NPOs to ensure accountability is enhanced through their management and hiring process to help prevent the increasing cases of fraud and embezzlement. It is disheartening that people would seek to steal from organizations with an intention to better the lives of people or pursue an agenda that is for the greater good. However, everything starts with the management of such organizations. To deliver on the topic at hand, this article will be divided into several parts. Each of these parts will offer clear and deeper analysis of the matter at hand.
Historical Sketch of the Study/Problem
Lack of accountability is the root of all evil in all organizations. For NPOs, it often leads to closure or declaration of bankruptcy as was the fate of the Healing Arts Initiative (HAI). This organization had a great goal in mind and everything seemed to be working. However, a lack of accountability crept in and swept everyone under their feet. It did not take long for the organization to file for bankruptcy and all because of lack of accountability measures. Having been hit with a fraud and embezzlement issue, HAI could not recover as a lot of money had already been siphoned out. HAI is not alone in the cases of fraud and embezzlement of funds among NPOs. An expose from the Washington Post reported that there were more than “1,000 nonprofit organizations that have reported a “significant diversion” of assets since 2008.&rdq...
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