Good And The Social Sectors

Great leaders work purposefully to communicate what is important. A clear and commonly understood set of standards is critical to encouraging the heart. Standards must have a focus on excellence and be inspirational. Kouzes & Posner state that people want to do a good job and be successful, and it is an essential part of a leader’s role to communicate what success looks like. Standards are comprised of three aspects; all of which leaders must address. First, leaders must seek to address values. Leaders have to stand for something and have courage in their principles. Leaders must convey these values to other members and seek correspondence between personal and

First published in 1987, The Leadership Challenge is a guide for becoming leader. The book received many awards and its above two million copies are internationally sold. The book teaches principles of leadership that apply whether the leader is running a sports team or a fortune 500 organization. The book includes stories and examples of many leaders from micro to macro level (Founders and Authors, 2013). The basic leadership principles can be adopted by anyone to challenge status quo and increase leader productivity multifold. The book tells about the flow and hierarchy of values too (Machedo, 2013). One can use the guide without an instructor to develop leadership traits.

   In "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor, the masked truth is reflected unequivocally through the reality in the story, its equal counterpart. For every good or evil thing, there is an antagonist or opposing force. Each character has a duplicate personality mirrored in someone else in the story.

Good management and leadership are essential for organizations to operate and additionally for the businesses to prosper. When businesses are well administered, they can function successfully and they can function effectively. Managers have exceptionally effective and strong plans, mangers have systematized structures, organizations, and they also assess effects. When businesses are appropriately directed, they acclimate to modifications in the situation and cultivate cultures that encourage obligation and improvement. Mutually good management and good leadership are essential to maintain organizational performance.

John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods once said "Business social responsibility should not be coerced; it is a voluntary decision that the entrepreneurial leadership of every company must make on its own." (Mackey, 2005) In today’s society it is increasingly common for businesses to actively identify and become directly involved in the country and the global social issues and needs. It is now common

Social responsibility is a great way to not only to make profit; consequently, as well as building a

With any human services organization it is necessary to produce results that can be measured, due to the fact that many are funded in part or wholly by public funding. “In effect, to express goals and objectives as services rather than outcomes makes it impossible to evaluate a program against its outcomes, rendering such a program essentially nonaccountable. If a social program cannot produce results that meet human needs, the welfare system must direct funding elsewhere” (Chambers &

As for the social justice value, we felt that it did not work to address social justice issues, and adhering to the social policies to maintain funding did not leave much room to address social justice issues. We did feel that this perspective did however, meet the values of dignity and worth of the person, as the perspective did work to address the basic social needs of people. The institutional perspective did not appear to address the importance of human relationships, as there was not much connection other than abiding to the expectations to provide service. There did appear to be a fair amount of Integrity, as the perspective stresses the compliance of expectations and laws. The perspective also appeared to demonstrate competence through the maintenance of expectations set forth through the various law and external forces that regulate

When an organization partakes in “proactive behavior…for the benefit of society,” it is deemed as socially responsible (P. 155). However, prior to labeling a organization as socially responsible, it is important that we first identify what specific elements of proactive behavior constitute a socially responsible business. To begin, for an organization to be considered socially responsible on the highest level, it must take a proactive approach to doing business. This is defined as “[taking a] approach to social responsibility in which an organization goes beyond industry norms to solve and prevent problems” (P.155). In addition, it is standard for a socially responsible organization to incorporate a larger scope of stakeholders, to include external stakeholders, in their business decisions to create positive externalities, and mitigate negative ones, to benefit society as a whole.

The primary of this idea is to push businesses to have a positive impact on their employees and local community, rather than using profit as the main motivation. This is precisely why the name is “Servant Leadership”. Greenleaf explains it as meaning to serve first and then to lead; a groups primary focus should by all means be to support the growth and well-being of others first. An increasing amount of nonprofit businesses have gravitated to this servant-leadership philosophy as a part of their company and therefore had made it a groundwork in their mission statement.

Organization leaders should understand that employees are not only economic beings motivated by money but are also social beings motivated by social factors such as love and conducive working culture (Marquet, 2015). Sinek focuses on the various means of bringing the balance back in our organizations so that companies and the individual workers can work side by side in a symbiotic affiliation with each other. For example, Sinek points out an example of a CEO named Bob Chapman, whose major focus was building workers who are capable of doing extraordinary things (Sinek, 2014). Considered a people-centric leadership style, Mr.

In today’s modern society, the United States faces many public policy issues, whether those issues include social welfare, immigration or even environmental issues. Congress receives numerous issues on public polices every day, but they cannot handle and solve every issues that comes across their daily agenda, nor can they satisfy every person in this country. Congress prioritizes on those issues that are more important and relevant to find a probable solution too. A growing issue we see that in today’s society are issues in the social welfare system. Social Welfare has so many issues within some of those issues include the food stamps, and even in the healthcare system. The matters in social welfare requires every individuals help to resolve, not just congress. The second major public policy issue we face in American today are within the Public Assistance Programs. Those programs include the SNAP, SSI, and even the TANF program.

Sutton stresses the importance of striking a delicate balance between Performance & Humanity. In Sutton’s view bosses have to be judged by what their teams achieve AND how they feel along the way. The following chapters offer good practices and feedback on what the best bosses do to acquire the skills and grit to inspire good work, commitment and respect among their followers.

Some business leaders are taking good moral decisions and the reason behind that idea is that the core part of their business strategy is to create mutual benefit for both wider society and business as well. The growing desire of top management is to find out ways to create mutual benefit for both the organizations and the stake holders but the public still believes that companies are greedy entities which make decisions only in their self-interest, even at the cost of greater public welfare. It is the utmost obligation of the companies to discern the social issues while making the decisions (Yashiro, Yoshida and Suzuki, no date; Godwin, 2006; Schwab, 1996; Godwin, 2008; Werhane, 1998; Werhane, 2002; Heath, 2008; Mehalik and Gorman, 2006).

After reading the first two chapters of Building Social Business, I was moved. I was inspired. Yunus opened my eyes to another side of business which in his words was selfless. And indeed it was selfless. Social business is truly selfless because it focuses on helping others and earning profit comes second. By reading this book and reflecting, I realized it is better to be part of the solution than be part of the problem. By looking at my community, at my environment, and at my experiences in life, there are problems that will need solutions and I firmly believe that having a social business is the solution. By my observation, slow public utilities, expensive medicine, and empowering marginalized sectors are problems that can be solved by putting up social businesses. By combining entrepreneurial mindset and experience, social awareness, and creativity, the ideal social business can be done. But what makes a social business truly a social business is the