MIAN USMAN AHMAD

BBA-FAO9-074

WORLD VISION AUSTRALIA A NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ABOUT NFP SECTOR

DRIVERS OF CHANGE
INTRODUCTION OF ORGANISATION BACKGROUND TO THE CHANGE

CHANGE ACTIVITY
Evaluation DISCUSSION

INTRODUCTION ABOUT NFP SECTOR

The NFP sector is made up of a myriad of organisations,some

community based and some sponsored by churches or philanthropic bodies, which deliver a wide range of human resources to Australia and other overseas countries. There are around 11000 NFP orgainisations operating in Australia who receive government funding,and an unknown number of similar organisation who operate without government support. The sector emloyes around 100,000paid staff while an additional95 million pf unpaid workis contributed by people volunteering their time and talents. The sector size is also a significant of expenditure. The combined annual expenditure of NFPs in 1993-94 was 4.8 billion dollars.

DRIVERS OF CHANGE
Ideology

Funding
Accountability Professionalism

INTRODUCTION OF ORGANISATION
world vision australia(wva) was established in 1966.In the first 20 yearsof operations,regional offices were established in sydney,Newzealand,south Australia and western Australia. World vision Australia is the Largest NGDO operating in Australia with an annual income of $98 million, 340 paid employees, more than 5000 active volunteers and many thousands of child sponsors and donors.

Background to the change

The change that occurred at world vision is described

as both restructure and process reengineering effort by interview participants. It represent the culmination of events spanning some three years. In early 1995 under its former CEO world vision Australia embarked Future Search program. This was a participatory, vision forming process, intended to prepare the WVA for the 21st century by identifying a picture of what the organization needed to become.

Change Activity
Restructure

Reengineering
Modular Transformation Directive

Evaluation
Employee participation

Efficiency
Vision

Discussion
The participation dilemma

The role of vision, mission and ideology

Employee participation and organization philosophy Change management evaluation