Author: Jane Dutton, Justin Berg
Product Type: Case
Product #: 1-428-851
Publication Date:08/2009
Length: 13
Keywords: Human Resource Management, HRM, Management and Organization, Management, Nonprofit, Non Profit, Non-Profit, Leadership; Positive Organizational Scholarship; Women Employed; POS; The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, Change Management
| Discipline: | Human Resource Management
Management and Organizational Behavior |
| Industry: | Not-For-Profit |
| Region: | North America |
| Topic: | Change Management
Leadership |
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Leaders of political advocacy organizations are faced with the challenge of motivating their employees past frequent obstacles, shortcomings, and failures. Anne Ladky, the Executive Director of a non-profit political advocacy organization called Women Employed, developed a leadership style to help her employees tackle this demanding line of work. Her leadership approach attends to the vital role human energy plays in her organization and emphasizes the importance of focusing on opportunities. This case describes how Anne’s leadership cultivated an opportunity-driven organizational culture that ultimately helped Women Employed overcome bureaucratic resistance against their initiatives to improve education and job training for low-income women.
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