Managing People and Leadership. Strategic Positioning and Marketing. Flashcards

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Different approaches to leadership

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  • Leaders are born
  • Leaders are trained
  • Leadership as a process when one individual exercises influence over others
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Two dimensions of leadership style (behavioral approach)

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  • Supportive behavior (consideration) - praising, listening, linked to satisfaction
  • Directive behavior (initiating structure) - telling and showing people what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and providing frequent feedback on results
    linked to performance
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Situation Leadership

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directive behavior, supportive behavior
Delegating (4)
Participating (3)
Selling (2)
Telling (1)
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Transformational Leadership (process approach)

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  • Emphasis on developing personal relationships
  • Appealing to shared values and ideals

Works when: no formal power, no resources to be exchanged, high motivation of stakeholders is crucial for success

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Transformational Leadership Model

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Build commitment to the vision, develop/communicate a strategic vision, encourage experimentation, model the vision

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Developing an ethical orgaization

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individual integrity (autonomy) and institutional integrity (authority)

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Ethical Orientation

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From low to high:

Opportunists/Immoral managers
Pragmatists/Amoral managers
Idealists/Moral managers

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Why people fail to be ethical?

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  1. Unawareness and insensitivity
    - Moral blindness, internal rationalizations, false assumptions
  2. Selfishness - lack of readiness to sacrifice one’s interest, self indulgence, self-protection
  3. Defective reasoning - mistakes in evaluation
    - Overestimation of the costs of doing the right thing
    - Underestimation of the cost of unethical conduct
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Moral Silence in Organization - Key Issues

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  1. Failure to speak a common language - diff goals and roles among departments/people
  2. Obedience to authority - they know better, I can’t say no
  3. The lesser of two evils - pressure to choose between two unethical options
  4. Group thinking - social proof phenomenon, loyalty, & group
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NPO’s stakeholders

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Governing board, CEO, management team, paid staff, volunteers, advisory boards, auditing committees

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Governing Board in NPO

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  • Establishes and supervises compliance of values, mission, and vision
  • Approves strategy
  • Appoints, supports and evaluates the CEO
  • Safeguards legal compliance, accountability and financial stability
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Motives vs Orientation in Management

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Orientation: Shareholder model, Stakeholder Model
Motives: self-interest (instrumentally rational), normative/moral duty (value rational)

Shareholder Model x Self-interest: Productivism
Stakeholder Model x Self-interest: Progressivism

Shareholder Model x Normative/Moral Duty: Philanthropy
Stakeholder Model x Normative/Moral Duty: Pluralism

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Leadership vs Management

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Leadership: long-term, purpose, relationship, motivation & inspiration to change
Management: short/mid-term, rules, processes, performance, & efficiency

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Drivers of wages in NPOs

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Higher:

  • weaker internal control
  • responsibility is spread
  • no base to calculate

Lower:

  • lower average budgets
  • higher public control, pressure on transparency
  • competition
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Motivation crowding theory

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external motivators such as monetary incentives or punishments can undermine internal motivation

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Volunteering

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higher satisfaction, simply because if unsatisfied will not volunteer

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Psychological motivations to volunteer

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  • values
  • understanding
  • social
  • career
  • protective
  • enhancement
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Predictors for volunteering - international perspective

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  • personal factors
  • psychological factors
  • cultural factors
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best practices for volunteer management

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prepare carefully, recruit and hire volunteers as if they were employees, recognize and reward as if they were donors

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Marketing definition for NPO

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Building relationships with specific stakeholders that create desired action, which aligns with the organizational mission in tangible and measureable ways.

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Marketing Process

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Set goals, strategy, target, groups
Prepare marketing program
Build relationships
Create impact
Measure & Understand
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Strategic planning - goal setting

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Outputs, Outcome, Impact

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Outputs

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  • value/# of services delivered
  • # of events organized
  • # of participants served
  • # of promo materials delivered
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Outcomes

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  • # of new beneficiaries, donors, volunteers, memebrs
  • knowledge transfer
  • change of attitudes and behaviors, improved condition
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Impact

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  • homeless ratio decrease, crime ratio decrease, unemployment ratio decrease
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Target groups

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  • stakeholders: clients, beneficiaries, donors
  • segmentation
  • choosing the segment as target group
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Market Segmentation Criteria

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Geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavioral

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NPO positioning

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desired place of NPO offer/program in the minds of target stakeholders

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NPO branding

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  • Name, term, sign, design, or a combo of these that identifies the org, or it’s offer
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Operational Planning

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product/service/program, distribution/program design, financial and non-financial costs, communication

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Marketing - mix for NPO - 4Ps/4Cs

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Customer Value (Product), Convenience (Distribution), Cost (price), Communication (Promotion)

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Anonimous -> Personal

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poster, leaflet, outdoor, mass media

impersonal message: website, social, crowd-funding platforms

Personalized message - making direct connections with carefully targeted individuals using databases

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NPO Positioning Model

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Mission Values > Sources of Competence > Features > Rational Benefits > Cognitive Benefits > Emotional Benefits > Personality

Rational Elements
Emotional Elements

Personality