Conflicts
Small voluntary organisations find themselves faced with four competing governance requirements:
- Whilst countering social exclusion and strengthening civil society, they must be accountable to members and have a strong voice.
- Whilst delivering services to users, they must be accountable to funders/purchasers.
- Whilst promoting social entrepreneurship, they must balance accountability to a wide group of stakeholders with individual action.
- Whilst engaging in consultation and lobbying, they must demonstrate responsiveness and accountability to the community.
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Famous quotes containing the word conflicts:
“The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx’s concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud’s.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child’s pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”
—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)