Essays on Pathfinder

Strategic Plan (January 2017 to December 2019)

The organization’s new strategy will outline its activities until 2019. It reflects on the organization’s opinion on some of the problems affecting the VCSE (Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organizations) and the organization’s goal for transformation. The strategic plan pronounces the roles that the organization will assume in steering and assisting the sector in their attempt to mitigate these problems and take advantage of new openings as they occur. An increased demand for the organization’s services, as well as the harsh funding options, obliges the organization to be creative and function across sectors. In working ...

Organizational Sustainability Project

An organizational sustainability project (OSP) plays a critical role in the overall realization of organizational vision and mission and the achievement of both short-term and long-term goals. The main factor to success in any OPS is the stakeholders’ level of commitment to the sustainability plan. One of the most critical areas of sustainability that determines success in the organization is the financial sustainability project. According to Abt Associates Inc (n.d), the sustainability of the organization is gauged by its financial strength.

Summary of the financial sustainability

Every organization, whether for-profit or not-for –profit, aims at achieving institutional financial sustainability. For many organizations, especially the ...

Introduction

Organizational structure is a very important component of an organization. In order to successfully accomplish the organizational mission, the members of an organization need to act in accordance with a framework of order and a set pattern of management. It is the structure of an organization that puts into effect the order in which the activities of an organization are planned, organized and controlled. The roles, responsibilities and communication channels are also defined by the structure alone (Laurie J. Mullins, 2005, p 296). The objective behind the creation of organizational structure is to assimilate employees into an entrenched network of relationships so that ...