Strategic collaboration in public and nonprofit administration : a practice-based approach to solving shared problems / / Dorothy Norris-Tirrell, Joy A. Clay

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809707403321
• Autore: Norris-Tirrell Dorothy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, : CRC Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-351-54774-7; 1-351-54775-5; 1-315-08765-0; 1-4200-8876-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Collana: American Society for Public Administration book series on public administration & public policy
• Altri autori (Persone): ClayJoy A
• Disciplina: 361.6068
• Soggetti: Local government - United States; Strategic planning - United States; Problem solving - United States; Public-private sector cooperation - United States; Nonprofit organizations - United States - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Contributors; Chapter 1. The Promise of Strategic Collaboration; Chapter 2. A New Lens: The Life Cycle Model of Collaboration; Chapter 3. Assessing Collaborative Readiness: The Missing Strategic Step; Chapter 4. Strategic Collaboration in Action: Six Principles; Chapter 5. Attending to the Forgotten: The Elderly, Collaborative Practice, and Evacuation; Chapter 6. Running Out of Classrooms! Solving Overcrowding through Collaborative School Planning; Chapter 7. Moving beyond Hierarchies: Creating Effective Collaboration Networks for West Nile Virus Biosurveillance in OregonChapter 8. Information Stewardship and Collaboration: Advancing Evidence-Based Public Policy Decision Making; Chapter 9. Choices and Challenges: Sustaining a Rural Health Network when Funding Vanishes; Chapter 10. ; Collaboration, Citizen Participation, and Environmental Protection in the Marine Oil Trade of Alaska; Chapter 11. Paving the Way for Public Transportation in Texas through Public Collaboration; Chapter 12. Cape Fear Healthy Carolinians: Taking Risks, Crossing BoundariesChapter 13. Building a Community-Higher Education Collaboration to Meet the Needs of the Local Nonprofit Sector; Chapter 14. The Mastery of Strategic Collaboration Practice; Appendix A: Recommended Reading List for Collaborative Practice; Appendix B: Collaboration Operating Guidelines Sample; Appendix C: Participant Agreement; Appendix D: Matrix of Collaboration Participant Roles; Appendix E: Checklist for Strategic Collaboration Meetings; Appendix F: Parliamentary Procedure Highlights for Effective Meetings; Appendix G: Collaborative Analysis of a Contested Policy Issue ChecklistAppendix H: Recent Collaboration Practice Literature; References; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Market disruptions,climate change, and health pandemics lead the growing list of challenges faced by today’s leaders. These issues, along with countless others that do not make the daily news, require novel thinking and collaborative action to find workable solutions. However, many administrators stumble into collaboration without a strategic orientation. Using a practitioner-oriented style, Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration: A Practice-Based Approach to Solving Shared Problems provides guidance on how to collaborate more effectively, with less frustration and better results. The authors articulate an approach that takes advantage of windows of opportunity for real problem solving; brings multi-disciplinary participants to the table to engage more systematically in planning, analysis, decision making, and implementation; breaks down barriers to change; and ultimately, lays the foundation for new thinking and acting. They incorporate knowledge gained from organization and collaboration management research and personal experience to create a fresh approach to collaboration practice that highlights: Collaboration Lifecycle Model Metric for determining why and when to collaborate Set of principles that distinguish Strategic Collaboration Practice Overall Framework of Strategic Collaboration Linking collaboration theory to effective practice, this book offers essential advice that fosters shared understanding, creative answers, and transformation results through strategic collaborative action. With an emphasis on application, it uses scenarios, real-world cases, tables, figures, tools, and checklists to highlight key points. The appendix includes supplemental resources such as collaboration operating guidelines, a meeting checklist, and a collaboration literature review to help public and nonprofit managers successfully convene, administer, and lead collaboration. The book presents a framework for engaging in collaboration in a way that stretches current thinking and advances public service practice.