Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Schwabenland, Christina.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.

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Details

Description

viii, 223 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Though an exploration of the role of storytelling in creating social change and empowering marginalised people, this book provides rich insights into the ways in which people take action through organisations to realise their visions of a better world. The book is based on extensive research into stories told by people working in voluntary organisations in the UK and in India. The stories are revelatory of their underlying assumptions about social ills and the social good, and their various conceptions of the way in which social change can best be achieved."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Corporate social responsibility series

Uniform Title

Corporate social responsibility series.

Alternative Title

Stories, visions and values in voluntary organizations

Subject

• Social change > Great Britain
• Social change > India
• Associations, institutions, etc. > Great Britain
• Associations, institutions, etc. > India
• Social change
• Community development > Great Britain
• Community development > India
• Voluntarism > Great Britain
• Voluntarism > India
• Voluntarism
• Community development
• Associations, institutions, etc
• Social change
• Sociale verandering
• Vrijwilligersorganisaties
• Great Britain
• India
• India
• Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-217) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780754644620
• 0754644626

LCCN

2006018457

OCLC

• ocm69484836
• 69484836
• SCSB-9017394

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library