{"id":854,"date":"2011-03-11T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:56:08","slug":"in-whose-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/in-whose-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"In whose interest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We remain committed to supporting the success of \u2018noble purpose organisations\u2019\u00a0and the well-being of the people that work in them. These are institutions where an allegiance to the organisation\u00a0is said by staff to be their primary motivation for joining up.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/business_briefing\/2010_dec.shtml\">we&#8217;ve noted before<\/a>, they can be places where, paradoxically, there is not a fully or sufficiently &#8216;shared purpose&#8217; between people. There can also be a lack of attention to the necesary\u00a0culutre needed to achieve the organisation&#8217;s aims.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another cross-sector hypothesis, drawing on the work of <a href=\":\/\/www.well.com\/~art\/s%2Bb22002.html\">Art Kleiner on \u2018Core Groups\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Despite the mission statements, in the public and third sectors there can be a propensity to run the organisation in the \u00a0interests of the bulk of the staff (and, for example, in some local government arenas to the interests of those at the lowest level of the organisation). This requires skilled leadership to ensure that the overarching purpose of the work remains clear and that\u00a0the end users being served actually do turn out to be the ultimate beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>2. In commerce,\u00a0the core group whose interests are served are\u00a0more likely to be at the top, running things under the veneer of customer and shareholder value.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We remain committed to supporting the success of \u2018noble purpose organisations\u2019\u00a0and the well-being of the people that work in them. These are institutions where an allegiance to the organisation\u00a0is said by staff to be their primary motivation for joining up. As we&#8217;ve noted before, they can be places where, paradoxically, there is not a fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[50,97,126,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}