Analysis of Community Organizational Psychology: Feeding America

This report presents an analysis of an interview conducted with a functional manager at Feeding America, a non-profit organization focused on hunger relief in the United States. The interview explores various aspects of community organizational psychology, including the organization's values, structure, mission, and governance. The interviewee's personal values and perceptions of organizational values are examined, along with factors influencing their commitment to the organization. Key performance indicators and targets are discussed, highlighting the organization's efforts to combat hunger and improve food security. The report also touches upon potential challenges, such as cultural discrimination, that could impact employee retention. Overall, the interview provides valuable insights into the practical application of community organizational psychology within a non-profit setting. Desklib offers a range of resources including past papers and solved assignments to aid students in their studies.

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The interviewee is a functional manager in the company named Feeding America
1. Tell me about of the organization.
The organization named Feeding America is a popular nonprofit organisation in
United States, which works to provide food for people.
2. What is your role in the organization?
The role of the organization is to educate the people about hunger. The aim of the
company is to provide sufficient food for reducing the rate of hunger in United States. I am
working here as a functional manager and controls all the operational activities in the
company.
3. Draw me the organizational structure of your team.
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4. What values are important to you personally?

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I am very much responsible towards my job. My work is my passion and I try to
maintain the ethics in my personality. I am very intellectual, creative and love to face the
challenges. Ion the other hand I am punctual and achievement oriented.
5. What values do you perceive as to or prevalent in the organization?
I believe that with the polite nature I will be able to deal with the people properly. On
the other hand as I have said that I am organized and love to face the challenges, this will
help me to deal with the difficult situation in the organization.
6. What values would you like to see, or see more in the organization?
Although the organization has the values like respect for the people, Integrity,
passing, commitment, accountability, stewardship, stewardship and service qualities, but if
the organization will focus on being more punctual and maintain the equality among the
employees, this will be beneficial.
7. Why did you choose to work for this organization?
I am passionate about involving myself in social work. And I love to do something for
the people in United State. This organization works to provide food for the hungry people,
which has influenced me to join the company.
8. What will make you continue to work for this organization?
As I said before, if the organization will maintain its dignity and equality with the
employees, this will encourage me to work with the organization for long run.
9. What will or might make you leave this organization?

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In this organization, I have faced cultural discrimination in some places, which has
disappointed me. If this will increase, only this can be the reason to leave me this
organization.
10. What is the organization’s vision and/or mission statement?
Vision of the company is to develop hunger free Virginia in the hunger free United States.
The mission of Feeding America is to feed the hungry people by maintaining the
community organizational networking the part of western and central Vurginia.it also aims to
educate the people for ending the hunger.
11. Do you have clearly developed governance around specific organizational practices?
The organization has focused on developing the anti-hunger programs. Here the federal
food assistance programs are being followed in the organization.
12. What category or section of society does your organization cater to?
It mainly works to provide the food to the people who are financially poor and not able to
earn food for their family and children. On the other hand, it also serves the food in
emergency disaster relief, school ‘pantries and kids’ café.
13. What are the key performance indicators of the organization?
The key performance indicator of the company is it wants to improve the sales
revenue of the farmers in US.
14. What are the performance targets of the organization for the current business cycle?
In the current business cycle to organization has targeted to aware people about the
importance of hunger. The aim of the company is to remove malnutrition from America.
15. Do you have well developed governance around performance management?

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After developing the policies in the organization, this can be said that this this has
helped the organization to provide variety of foods. With the help of federal tax policies, the
company has got the chance to get more food in the food banks.