Sure, Your Nonprofit Cares … But Does It Care About You?
The Center for Companies That Care has released its 2008 honor roll, and a handful of nonprofits are sprinkled throughout the list. To make the honor roll, an organization must demonstrate 10 characteristics in its work environment:
- Sustain a work environment founded on dignity and respect for all employees
- Make employees feel their jobs are important
- Cultivate the full potential of all employees
- Encourage individual pursuit of work/life balance
- Enable the well-being of individuals and their families through compensation, benefits, policies and practices
- Develop great leaders, at all levels, who excel at managing people as well as results
- Appreciate and recognize the contributions of people who work there
- Establish and communicate standards for ethical behavior and integrity
- Get involved in community endeavors and/or public policy
- Consider the human toll when making business decisions
That’s a comprehensive list. One can easily see how a nonprofit could demonstrate some of those characteristics but not others. One can also see that operating according to all 10 principles would foster a tremendously fulfilling work environment that leads to a collection of employees do their damndest to advance the mission. How is your nonprofit doing with respect to these traits? | 501(c)
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