THE COOPERATIVE CONCEPT AND PRINCIPLES Flashcards
What are the Nature and Character of Cooperatives
COOPERATIVES are:
- service oriented
- community oriented.
- people oriented
- Owned, Managed, and Patronized by their Members
- business enterprises
- develop best through self-help and mutual help
- serve best when they answer the real and felt needs of the members
- develop best from bottom to top
- The development of cooperatives is enhanced through a multi-sectoral approach
In this type of business, failure to appreciate and to disregard their true nature and character is to deviate from the cooperative principles and ideals and to loss sight of the ultimate objective of the cooperative movement.
Cooperatives
What is an association of people and as business enterprises distinguished from other organizations by their nature and character
Cooperatives
Cooperatives as Defined by __________________
An autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
International Cooperative Alliance [ICA]
What is the title of lesson 2?
Nature & Character of Cooperatives and as distinguished with other Business Enterprises
___________’s definition emphasizes among other things that a business enterprise that wishes to be called and to operate as a cooperative needs to be registered with the government agencies.
RA 9520
The Cooperative Code of ________define cooperatives under __________ as a;
A cooperative is a duly registered association of persons, with a common bond of interest, who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common social, economic, and cultural needs and aspirations by making equitable contributions to the capital required, patronizing their products and services, and accepting a fair share of the risks and benefits of the undertaking in accordance with universally accepted cooperative principles.
Cooperative Code of 2008 (RA 9520) define cooperatives under Article 3
Cooperatives Defined under ________ that means, a duly registered association of persons, with a common bond of interest, who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common social or economic end, making equitable contributions to the capital required and accepting a fair share of the risks and benefits of the undertaking in accordance with universally cooperative principles.
RA 6938
What is the title of Unit 1?
THE COOPERATIVE CONCEPT AND PRINCIPLES
What is the title of Lesson 1?
The Cooperative Identity
In this type of Nature & Character of Cooperatives and as distinguished with other Business Enterprises, Cooperative are organized to serve their members by providing goods and services they need at costs.
Cooperatives are are service oriented
organized to serve their members by providing goods and services they need at costs.
Cooperatives
The members are aware that the benefits they derive from the cooperative come from their contributions and is the result of their mutual desire to help one another.
Cooperatives are are service oriented
Members join the cooperative and contribute capital in order to receive the needed services.
Cooperatives are are service oriented
Cooperatives, however, in serving the members, do not act as charitable organizations.
Cooperatives are are service oriented
What is the The cooperative slogan:
“Cooperative are not for profit, not for charity but for SERVICE.”
By the very nature of their activities, cooperatives strengthen the economic & social base of the communities in which they operate.
Cooperatives are community oriented
Cooperatives, therefore, enhance the people welfare by helping increase the productivity of their members and that of the communities in which they are located.
Cooperatives are community oriented
Cooperative works for the welfare of their members but at the same time integrate themselves into the life of the community in particular and that of the nation in general.
Cooperatives are community oriented
Cooperatives, are not merely economic instruments concerned with giving dividends and related economic and financial returns.
Cooperatives are people oriented
Cooperatives are instruments of change for total human development.
Cooperatives are people oriented
This means that the coop works for the total development of the human being in all aspect of life – economic, social, cultural, political [governance] & spiritual.
Cooperatives are people oriented
Who writes the goal of cooperatives
G. Fauquet
What is the goal of cooperatives
to make men – men with sense of both individual and joint responsibility – so that they may rise individually to a full personal life and collectively to a full social life.”
If a cooperative is organized & operated solely from borrowed capital, it violates the principle of self-help and loses much of its autonomous character.
Cooperatives are Owned, Managed, and Patronized by their Members.
The goal of cooperatives, writes G. Fauquet, “is to make men – men with sense of both individual and joint responsibility – so that they may rise individually to a full personal life and collectively to a full social life.”
Cooperatives are people oriented
Cooperatives are member-owned, member-controlled, and member used.
Cooperatives are Owned, Managed, and Patronized by their Members.
Members sense of ownership, is necessary in order that the members may have full authority to manage and control their cooperative.
Cooperatives are Owned, Managed, and Patronized by their Members.
In certain cases, a limited patronage by non-members may be allowed mainly for reasons of business viability and service to community.
Cooperatives are Owned, Managed, and Patronized by their Members.
Cooperatives, if they are to play a meaningful economic role in , our community life, it must serve & perform as efficiently & effectively like any other financial & business organization operating in the country today.
COOPERATIVES are business enterprises.
Cooperatives must depend on the patronage of their members and not from the non-members.
Cooperatives are Owned, Managed, and Patronized by their Members.
Cooperatives business is real business.
COOPERATIVES are business enterprises.
Cooperatives must be operated viably and provide a sizable amount of revenues & earn savings in order to sustain & maintain the services needed by their members
COOPERATIVES are business enterprises.
This is not to say that they should not be assisted but any financial or technical assistance, must not stifle [hindi masakal] but stimulate initiative, self-help and self-reliance. On this matter the principle of subsidiarity also applies — that before soliciting or asking for help or aids from outside, self-determination and self-capability should be first considered.
COOPERATIVES develop best through self-help and mutual help
Patronage of the cooperative goods & services cannot be maintained without good governance and better business performances.
COOPERATIVES are business enterprises.
The role of government & non-government organizations in the development of cooperatives should be one of assistance and not of dominance.
COOPERATIVES develop best through self-help and mutual help
Cooperatives as Distinguish with other Business Enterprises
(a) numbers of members required
(b) the nature of membership liabilities
On the part of the cooperatives being assisted, they should do their part by seeing to it that the objective of assistance given are achieved – that they grow stronger rather than become dependent upon such help.
COOPERATIVES develop best through self-help and mutual help
Who is the father of cooperativism
Robert Owen
The government & non-government organizations should not in any manner interfere in the purely internal affairs of the cooperative.
COOPERATIVES develop best through self-help and mutual help
Organizationally their development shall be from the primary to the level to the secondary and then to the tertiary up to the apex.
COOPERATIVES develop best from bottom to top.
Robert Owen, the father of cooperativism, says, “If you want something done, do it yourself.” This philosophy of Robert Owen has been responsible for the success of many cooperatives all over the world – and it is considered as the best alternative for the poor in any country to unite and help themselves in their depressed condition.
COOPERATIVES develop best through self-help and mutual help
This approach involves the participation of all sectors from the planning stage to implementation, evaluation and monitoring of all activities.
The development of cooperatives is enhanced through a multi-sectoral approach.
What does the father of cooperativism say and has been responsible for the success of many cooperatives all over the world – and it is considered as the best alternative for the poor in any country to unite and help themselves in their depressed condition.
“If you want something done, do it yourself.”
Whose responsible for the development of cooperatives should be one of assistance and not of dominance should not in any manner interfere in the purely internal affairs of the cooperative.
The government & non-government organizations
Cooperatives operated cannot expect patronage from the members wherein the goods or services given do not answer their needs.
COOPERATIVES serve best when they answer the real and felt needs of the members.
When the needs are real and are not felt by the members, the assisting agency should make the real needs be felt by the members.
COOPERATIVES serve best when they answer the real and felt needs of the members.
It is important that proper approaches & techniques are employed in order to ensure that the real needs of the members are identified and recognized before any cooperative is organized.
COOPERATIVES serve best when they answer the real and felt needs of the members.
Being a mass-based organizations, cooperatives develop_________________________.
COOPERATIVES develop best from bottom to top.
Having in mind the specific roles of each sector: the government, non-government, and the cooperative sector – must play a _____________ can ensure that all aspects of the development process are considered.
The development of cooperatives is enhanced through a multi-sectoral approach.
What is the title of Lesson 3?
The Cooperative Values, Principles and Practices
Geographically, cooperative should be develop from the barangays to the municipal, city, provincial, regional and to the national level.
COOPERATIVES develop best from bottom to top.
It is said here that Self-Help, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity are the values that should govern cooperatives as socially-responsible and people-oriented organizations and economic enterprises.
Organizational values
Together with providing economic benefits, cooperatives aim at bringing about a equality of life that upholds human dignity, inclusiveness and allness.
Cooperative Values
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Statement of Cooperative Identity declared the following cooperative values:
Organizational values
Ethical Values