Analysis of a Voluntary Organisation: Structure, Funding, and Impact

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Organisation management

Introduction
The management of the organisation is mainly getting people together for achieving the
predefined goals. This mainly enables achieving optimum use of resources with the aspects of
planning and controlling the workplace. Managing the organisation includes process of
organising, planning, leading and controlling the resources that is effective and beneficial. The
current report evaluates about the organisation that is one of the voluntary organisation that is
based on improving the lives of the children with better education, health care and also economic
opportunities. Current report mainly elaborate about evaluating the background of the
organisation and its current management structure that is mainly bringing change in the
economy. Moreover, the organisation is mainly non profit making that is mainly improving the
conditions of the society.
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Main Body
Mission’s and Vision statement: This Voluntary organisation has the specific vision to serve
children of worldwide in terms of their survival, protection, development and participation in the
society. In addition, the team of organisation mainly concentrate on different areas that inspire
breakthroughs in the manner in which the children are treated in the world and with this mission
of organisation are based on taking actions to chance the lives of children.
Values: Organisation mainly values the children health in terms of taking responsibility of
providing adequate resources within the society and also achieving the measurable outcomes. Its
goals are based on having the qualified workforce that is committed for improving the conditions
of the children (Osborne, 2013). Mainly the organisation works with partners to value children
lives. Moreover, creativity and disciplined risk is being invited for achieving the sustainable
results. On the other hand, business also focuses on valuing the reputation and establishes its
image as one of the non profit making organisation.
Aims and objectives: Mainly aim of the voluntary organisations is based on serving betterment
in the society. For the 100 years, it is being the organisation that is serving children and
whenever the conditions of emergency occurs, keeping the objective of responding, the
organisation is effective taking active participation. The organisation devotes whatever it can be
done to save the children, transforming the children and sharing the future. The business aim for
the positive humanitarian culture and actions are being taken for being the part of society. The
objective of organisation is based on covering more area of children with adopting the theory of
bringing change (Butler and Wilson, 2015).
Focus of business is based on strengthening the quality of organising programs through
investments and focus on raising the unrestricted income that will lead to deliver more
productive outputs. The organisation is utilising the platform of social media mainly to attract
different investors and spread about the activities that are being performed by the business.
Current practices are also aligned with carrying out regular market analysis and surveying the
prone areas and actions are being taken to bring necessary improvement (Anheier and Seibel,
2013).
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Organisational structure and benefits for staff: The organisation generally follows the
hierarchical structure that has involvement of different stakeholders that are board of directors,
trustees, different departmental managers and other executives that are surveying and taking
actions to improve the conditions of the children. In addition, organisation is supported with
good leadership team and qualified executives with the strategic direction of focussing on the
conditions of the children Chen et.al. 2013. Different officers and trustees involved are offering
support in the form of saving and protecting children of the society.
It mainly includes 24000 staff working that is working on different locations of the organisation.
Along with this, business has 13000 volunteers with the support of different specialist that are
skilled to serve betterment of the society. The staffs are being paid for their contribution based
on the fund raised. 5% of the overall expenditure is being used for management and general
activities (Ertas, 2014). Management mainly assures that the funds are being utilised for the
corrective purpose and in the most cost effective ways. Staffs is mainly provided return in the
form of wages and salaries, pensions, terminal grants, long term savings plan, benefits and other
rewards based on achieving the targets.
Strengths and weakness:
This voluntary organisation has strengths in the form of strong funding and has great leadership
skills that operate with the objective of inspiring people. Such organisations mainly do not have
the involvement of the government and is exempted from taxes. The organisation have strengths
in the form of bringing development in the community and have the strong reputation that
mainly attract many of the trustees to invest in the business for betterment (Maier et.al. 2016).
The organisation has strengths as it organises regular programs and campaigns that unusually
enhance interest of the investors to contribute some of the funds in business activities. Such kind
of organisation generally resemble strong message for the government that actions are being
taken to bring improvement in the society. The firm has the strong structure of offering intrinsic
rewards that shows that employees are highly motivated and are hard workers that have the
objective of making differences in the world (Grabowski et.al. 2015).
Along with some of the strengths, the non profit entity displays some of the challenges weakness
in terms of its operations. Sometimes, it is difficult to generate interest from some of the
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investors as it is the kind of non profit making. The volunteers working in the organisation might
leave the job at any time that is difficult for the management to manage the programs and
campaigns. Profits are generally attained in the business that makes difficult for the management
to maintain the interest of the stakeholders (Anheier, 2014). However, it can be suggested for
business to focus on different activities of marketing its services and can take help of
government grants to promote the business.
Local centres: The organisation is mainly operating on the international level and was
established in parts of UK to improve lives of the children. This voluntary organisation mainly
operates in more than 120 countries but it serves worldwide areas by taking initiatives through
partners and surveying the prone areas where there are severe conditions of the children. The
organisation also work with 30 national organisations that mainly campaign together for
implementing better practices and policies and organising programs that are at the scale to
support the children (Zadek et.al.2013).
Staffing and Training: It is being believed that generally non profit organisation operate with
skilled and qualified workforce as the motive of the organisation is in respect to bringing
improvement in the society. Employee engagement is one of the key concepts followed in the
workplace that offers employee experience opportunities mainly to promote the values,
advancing the partnerships, aspirations and achieving the maximum impact for the children.
Staffing is not too complex in the business and locally volunteers are being invited that
participate in the decision making.
However, training is being provided to transform the lives of the Children by offering
opportunities to other firms, teams and also individuals to engage in creative and impactful ways.
Generally, organisation believes on providing practical training opportunities for the volunteers
and workforce for the single direction and towards the strategic goals. In addition, the training
programs are provided for the humanitarian sector as the whole. This will help volunteers to
fulfil the needs at both regional and national level.
Funding: It is believed that the organisation has been reached over 49 billion of the children that
is preparing and protecting the children for the future. Also the organisation is being trying to
raise funds through face to face conversation for helping more children. Face to face is one of the
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most successful ways to bring thousands of supporters to raise funds and the volunteers are
advised to talk with many of the community members. On the other hand, the organisation is
based on using the proven track record with using the donations effectively. Also this non profit
entity uses the valuable donors as one of the cost effective method for raising funds. Volunteers
are requested to keep the cost effective method and generally the administrative cost is keep low
to utilise the funds effectively (Sargeant and Jay, 2014).
Strategies: The organisation has the focus to strengthen the operations platform that is based on
prioritising the investments mainly in structure, systems and optimising the capacity of the team.
The strategies are applied for the delivering efficient programs that are based on embedding the
theory of change for organising regular plans and programs. The business is expanding new
monitoring and evaluation model with the objective of enhancing humanitarian practices in the
country that will also strengthen the competition and organising regular global campaign. The
business mainly focuses on effective resource utilisation and managing the financial data more
transparent and operating highly on the international scale (Nah and Saxton, 2013). IT teams of
the organisation are being strengthened that include adding more system handling can also back
office services.
In addition to this, business generally has the focus towards managing talents and progress is
being made with effective career planning that emphasis on women and also national staff of the
overall country. However, the team have the clear strategic direction of supporting the delivery
of mission and strengthening the children safeguard. There are different auditors, committees and
other trustees that are responsible for taking active involvement in the organisation for its
effective management.
Philosophy and Principles: Strong management and effective deployment of the resources that
help in gaining the effective market respect, achieving confidence and public support. Generally
non profit organisation follows the philosophy of following the triple bottom line theory. This is
effective for taking the decisions that is financially effective, socially and environmentally
responsible (Maier et.al. 2016). The decisions of the business are mainly based on delivering the
competitive and sustainable development in the society.
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Generally non profit organisation follows the code of ethics and statement of values that is
provided to employees, volunteers and board of directors for making ethical choices and taking
accountable decisions. Non profit organisation need to foster values of the public trust that
includes maintaining Honesty, integrity, transparency, confidentiality and equity. This includes
employers to be fair in terms of treating employees fairly and mainly demonstrate commitment.
Having the code of ethics will fairly demonstrate the business to attract talents, recruit board
members, retain donors and aligned the organisational values to achieve objectives (Butler and
Wilson, 2015). However, these follow the confidential policies that maintain the trust with
clients that enable to serve the needs of customers.
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Conclusion
As per the analysis of the above report, it can be concluded that it is necessary to have the
suitable codes of ethics that will lead non profit organisation to maintain the trust with the
clients. It can be also concluded that such voluntary organisation will help to bring betterment in
the society. The report highlights suitable structure and background in which the organisation is
operating that is trying majorly to bring the critical change. As per the above report, it can also
concluded that such organisation that take effective support of the government grants to increase
their funding capacity and also social impact of the practices must be measured by the
organisation on regular basis.
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Recommendation
With the analysis of the above report, it can be recommended that non profit sector can be
emerged and for these effective decisions are required to be taken. For this, conversation should
be made stronger regarding how to measure and sell the social impact. For this survey can be
taken from the stakeholders regarding its current functioning and also improvement that is
needed to be made in near future. More focus can be made on hiring people that are qualified
that will help to meet with the organisational mission with tracking the record of success.
Organisation need to set high expectations with rewards and perks and mainly feel the employees
valued that will help to enhance the overall performance of the organisation. The decisions of
managing the resources can be effectively taken and also board is responsible for taking the
financial decisions that would lead to optimum utilisation of the resources. Moreover, business
needs to measure the business performance by preparing reports and also carrying out regular
business audits.
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References
Books and Journals
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 Ertas, N., 2014. Public service motivation theory and voluntary organizations: Do
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