Challenges Faced by Non-Governmental Organizations: A Review of Organizational Learning

This report analyzes the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations due to changing environment conditions, internal policies, and government laws. It also reviews the organizational learning process and its impact on the effectiveness of NGOs. The report critiques the different aspects affecting NGO learning, such as nature of development, information, knowledge and wisdom, belief versus knowledge, and accommodating error and failure. It also highlights the importance of competent decision making to address emergent problems in contemporary non-governmental organizations.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Review of article given by Michael Edwards .............................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Changing challenges refers to the barriers or obstacles which is faced by business
organisation due to some internal and external modifications. In today world there is lots of
changes occurs in market regarding government policies, trade policies, customer trends,
technology as well as environment uncertainty (Berbel and Esteban, 2019). There are various
management problem in non government organisation due to changes in these factors which
affect the working of organisation. In this report, NGDO management faced many challenges
regarding their non profitable operations of social work.
This report covers analyses why and how non governmental organisations have emerged
in different types of societies. Further, it highlights recognise and infer the differences between
governance and management of organisation. At last, it defines competent decision making to
address emergent problems in contemporary non government organisation.
MAIN BODY
Review of article given by Michael Edwards
According to the Edwards (2022), In recent world there are more people who engaged in
NGOs and prefers to work as social worker for the development of society and betterment of
children. NGOs has earned huge success in today dynamic world which provides social services
and known as powerful organisations that has huge impact on the development of society. The
main motive of this article to increase the awareness learning as well as it states the success and
failure of learning process in NGOs as compare to other organisation. IT has been critique that,
Every society needs different services as well as people in NGOs works to provide services to
members of these society as per their requirement for betterment of their condition. Some NGOs
works for industrial society and education to make their people educated as well as they also
helps them to generate funds for providing employment opportunities to people of local area.
Also several NGOs in a country provides their betterment services to the people to improve their
knowledge , understanding and skills in their learning process. It has been critique that, NGO
must give focuses on their culture ,structure and training process of staff in increase their
engagement in their learning process (Colvin, 2020). All NGOs must also organised various
training programme for the women and people who are engaged in these types of society in order
to increase their knowledge and skills to expand their business and earn more profit for better
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living standard. They also provide teaching services to people to who are not able to learn in
expensive schools. It is institution which provide learning services related to various field to
learners for their betterment. There are four aspects which affect the organisation ad have great
role in shaping NGO learning such as nature of development, information, knowledge and
wisdom, belief versus knowledge as well as accommodating error and failure.
As per the given article, there is a argument which is accommodating error and failure in
which they defined about real learning, selective learning and superficial learning. On this topic
it has been critiqued that it is not sufficient and easy for people to feel comfortable due to these
are different and difficult to gain as well as remember the whole learning process easily. For that
reason they need to changes their policies, it is essential for any organisation to learn from their
failure in order to not conduct these practices again in future on repetitive basis.
The another argument is belief versus knowledge, it has been critique that organisation
culture and structure plays most important role in foster and hinder of success of an NGO.
Good culture and structure helps organisation to improve engagement of staff member to provide
better learning and teaching services to people. Individuals with strong motive, value, beliefs
and commitment towards work which helps them to get better knowledge and learn new things.
As NGO needs to make differentiate between their education system, methodology, their basic
values and principles to order to safeguard the learning interest of children in UK.
The another argument is information, knowledge and wisdom. It has been critique that
NGO has very less resources as well as their staff members has less knowledge which leads to
they do not provide proper information to children to complete their learning process effectively.
Information is related to learning resources like raw material, books, other necessary equipment.
Also they have lack of systematic knowledge about testing system , examination process as well
as usage of various equipment. Wisdom is related to ability to utilise experience and knowledge
to helps students in gaining better understanding about various topic to achieve success in future.
It is important to members of NGO to learn by doing practical things, by taking coaching in
order to solve technical problems in their learning process. Also, they have to support their
members in developing skills through learning form their failure, mistakes and experience in
order to develop their knowledge to improve perform' and provide better services. NGOs must
use many performance evaluation tools to give feedback to their staff to make changes and
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improve their quality of performance. By promoting communication and learning in all over the
world they can add more value in today world in order to gain popularity in learning terms.
These law is for employees for their effective practices in order to helps the people of
many societies. Where as management of organisation refers to action taken by managers to
direct the business activities and employees towards the achievement of organisation goals
(Harrison and Johnson, 2019). In NGOs, management activities includes making strategic plan
for marketing and operations, providing directions to staff member and setting budget for daily
working in order to provide better services for the welfare of community.
There are also other problems which is associated with culture, attitude of people,
systems and priorities, public relations as well as incentives. In order to solves these problems
management takes various decision to change their policies and working methods (Lassa, 2018).
As they can use brainstorming process to determine and develop many options for effective
decision making as well as problem solving. They must develop their culture and give incentives
to get better ideas to solves the problems and conduct effective working to provide better or more
beneficial services to people of society. NGOs must upgrade their working style as they can use
computer system, advanced technology and digital tools to provide helps to needy people fast
and across the country. They must use social media platform to spread awareness about their
services and post their help line number so people can interact and use the benefit for their better
lifestyle.
As per above decision process and information presented in article it is has been cretique
that competent decision making helps the management of NGOs to make effective strategy to
implement changes in their working as per recent government rules, market condition as well as
demands of needy people in society. They make proper plan and back up plan in order to take
urgent decisions for providing social services to the people of society (Thoolen and Verstappen,
2021). . NGOs must invest in various learning such as participatory learning in the field, project
based learning, policy and advocacy related learning as well as visionary thinking in order to
solve the problems. By learning all these skills they can improve their formal knowledge about
research methods, institutional agenda, analytical rigour and overview of various courses.
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CONCLUSION
As per above presented report, it is concluded that non government organisation is a
business in which people conduct their practices as social work in to provide services for the
betterment of people in society. To manage these type of organisation they have to face many
challenges because of changing environment conditions, internal policies, government laws and
many more. They must give more focus on their culture, structure and public relation in order to
improve effectiveness of NGO as well as learning process of employees, people and staff to
conduct effective working and done better work.
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