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Reframing Board‐Staff Relations: Exploring the Governance Function Using a Storytelling Metaphor
Author(s) -
Bradshaw Patricia
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.12409
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , metaphor , storytelling , function (biology) , corporate governance , perspective (graphical) , sociology , public relations , political science , knowledge management , management , narrative , psychology , computer science , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , evolutionary biology , artificial intelligence , economics , biology
This article attempts to reframe board‐staff relations by presenting an alternative perspective on governance, management, and leadership functions within nonprofit organizations. It draws on an interpretative view of organizations and suggests that we can understand nonprofits as socially constructed entities by using the metaphor of storytelling. Seeing the role of board and staff through this theoretical lens allows us to reconceptualize them. This in turn enables us to enhance the creative potential of the governance function and allows governance to support the goal of creating resilient, adaptive, learning organizations.