LEADERSHIP OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AGED CARE SECTOR IN AUSTRALIA

Authors

  • Shankar Sankaran University of Technology Sydney
  • Colleen Cartwright Southern Cross University
  • Jacqueline Kelly Lutheran Community Care
  • Kelly Shaw Southern Cross University
  • Jeffrey Soar University of Southern Queensland

Keywords:

Leadership, Non-Profit Organizations, Systems Thinking, Action Research

Abstract

This paper will describe an organizational change program being envisaged to be carried out in two non-profit organizations in Australia that are providing health and community care. A pilot project was carried out to secure a research grant from the Australian Federal Government to carry out a three-year research project to strengthen leadership in non-profit organizations providing aged care. The paper will summarize the findings from the pilot project which used systems thinking approaches such as scenario planning. It will also explain an action research approach being adopted to test the leadership framework (developed through the pilot project and confirmed through the main project) in real environments. The research is expected to contribute to theory and practice of leadership in the not-for-profit organizations serving the aged care sector in Australia which is a national priority to be addressed.

Author Biography

Shankar Sankaran, University of Technology Sydney

Associate Professor in the School of the Built Environment teaching Systems Thinking and Management Modelling in Project Management Programs. Course Director for Project Management Programs. Supervise doctoral students using systems thinking in their research. Hold Masters Degree in Systems Engineering and PhD in Business and Management. Member of System Dynamics Society. Presented/published refereed papers in journal related to systems thinking and action research. Worked as a control systems engineer and project manager for large scale distributed systems in oil, gas, petrochemical and power industries.

Published

2010-08-25

How to Cite

Sankaran, S., Cartwright, C., Kelly, J., Shaw, K., & Soar, J. (2010). LEADERSHIP OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AGED CARE SECTOR IN AUSTRALIA. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2010, Waterloo, Canada, 54(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings54th/article/view/1414

Issue

Proceedings of the 54th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

Section

Human Systems Inquiry