Stories, visions and values in voluntary organisations / Christina Schwabenland.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Corporate social responsibility series.
Main Author: Schwabenland, Christina
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Corporate social responsibility series.
Subjects:
Social change > Great Britain.
Social change > India.
Associations, institutions, etc. > Great Britain.
Associations, institutions, etc. > India.
Physical Description:viii, 223 pages ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Stories, visions and values in voluntary organizations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A genuine voluntary organisation : setting the scene
  • Introduction
  • Voluntary organisations
  • Stories and storytelling in organisational analysis
  • Storytelling, voluntary organisations and social change
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Stories and visions
  • Something has to be done : creating organisations as a response to social injustice
  • Introduction
  • Subversive stories and utopian tales
  • Creating alternative ideologies
  • Changing the social landscape
  • Concluding thoughts
  • A road from periphery to centre : stories of empowerment
  • Introduction
  • Stories of power and powerlessness
  • Creating possibilities
  • A road from periphery to centre
  • Concluding thoughts
  • From private trouble to public concern : voluntary organisations and social change
  • Introduction
  • Visions of society and social change
  • Creating possibilities
  • Imaginative variations on the theme of society
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Stories and values
  • Playing pinball with ideas : storytelling and the management of creativity
  • Introduction
  • Metaphors of creative organisations
  • Conceptualising creativity through metaphors
  • Creation myths and the culture of creativity
  • Concluding thoughts
  • The dancer and the dance : storytelling and leadership
  • Introduction
  • Stories and the construction of leadership
  • Leading as storytelling
  • Storytelling as a function of leadership
  • Legitimising the leader's management style
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Swimming sharks : storytelling and managing change
  • Introduction
  • Stories about change in organisations
  • Storying and decision making
  • The functions of stories in the management of change
  • Concluding thoughts
  • A vehicle for exploring : concluding thoughts
  • Introduction
  • Visions, voluntary organisations and social change
  • Voluntary organisations and empowerment
  • Values : implications for leadership and management
  • Final concluding thoughts.