Examination of the Relationship Between Organizational Effectiveness and Transformational Leadership

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Author(s): Maria Lavina M. Alonzo , Cataldo Zuccaro , Michel Plaisent , Prosper Bernard

Publication date: February 23 2024

Publisher: IGI Global

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This chapter aims to examine the impact of transformational leadership on the management effectiveness of charities organizations, a less often studied organizations compared to those which focus on revenue building. Furthermore, as women remain underrepresented in both leadership and managerial positions but constitute a significant percentage of managers in registered charities and non-for-profit organizations, the study also aimed to analyze leadership and organizational effectiveness of women leaders in these organizations. Results of the analysis of the responses to the survey strongly support the capacity of the instrument to measure the transformational leadership and organizational effectiveness constructs. In addition, results confirm the existence of a positive and statistically significant relationship between the two constructs. Finally, results of dummy regression analysis do not show that gender has a statistically significant effect on organizations.

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What are the barriers and facilitators for third sector organisations (non-profits) to evaluate their services? A systematic review

Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen, Paul Montgomery (2018)

Background The third sector is becoming a more common provider of social and health services, but little is known about how third sector organisations (TSOs) evaluate their activities. Past research has reported that the third sector is under increasing pressure to evaluate its impact and performance by government and other commissioning bodies. However, in responding to this increased pressure to undertake evaluation, research suggests that many TSOs struggle to evaluate their activities following the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP). Yet, there has been no systematic effort to investigate why the third sector is struggling to provide good quality evidence of its effects. Methods This systematic review is reported following the PRISMA guidelines. Ten interdisciplinary databases were searched using a search string developed following best practice and in consultation with an information systems expert. Included studies were primary research of any research design investigating barriers to and facilitators of the evaluation process of TSOs as identified by practitioners. All studies were quality appraised, and the results were synthesised as a thematic summary. Results Twenty-four studies were included, which mainly investigated TSOs working within health and social services. The thematic summary identified the main barriers for TSOs to undertake evaluation to be related to the (1) lack of financial resources, (2) lack of technical capability and evaluation literacy and (3) challenges around identifying relevant evaluation systems and outcome indicators. Key facilitating factors involved (1) getting the appropriate support, (2) having an organisational culture that supports evaluation and (3) the motivation to be accountable to stakeholders. These findings were robust to study quality. Conclusions This review constitutes the first systematic effort to synthesise existing literature on factors supporting and preventing evaluation by TSOs. The prevalence of factors revolving around the lack of support, resources and clarity on appropriate outcome indicators suggests that many of the identified challenges may be met by applying evidence-based and stakeholder-inclusive strategies to develop shared evaluation requirements. Future efforts should address the application of EBP as part of the commissioning process of TSOs. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13643-018-0681-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.