Getting Work: Alternatives
Dividing workplaces into profit (i.e. market-centred = 1 Type) and non-profit (i.e. the other 6 Types) raises the question: Do different types of non-profit bodies emerge from each of the other Interacting-for-Benefit Types?
If THEE is truly tapping into psycho-social reality, the answer has to be:
YES!
Market-centred bodies
e.g. business partnerships or companies.
Details
| Control
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By entrepreneurs or owners |
| Aim
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Generate prosperity for individuals and, indirectly, for society |
| Finances
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About operating profitable in a market setting:
see details in the commercial ethos and marketing sections. |
Power-centred bodies
e.g. public agencies or the civil service
Details
| Control
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By politicians |
| Aim
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Provide communal services for individuals and society as a whole |
| Finances
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Public sector bodies are expenditure dominated; waste on a colossal scale is the norm.
Employees typically demand that pay be protected irrespective of the financial environment, society’s needs, or competitive requirements. |
Cause-centred bodies
e.g. churches, academic disciplines, pressure groups, early 20th century political parties
Details
| Control
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By members |
| Aim
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Spread the dogma and develop social influence |
| Finances
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Money is expected from members and supporters .
The institutions generally manage their own finances poorly and usually expect their employees to make financial sacrifices. |
Community-centred bodies
e.g. cooperatives, mutual societies, and some voluntary services
Details
| Control
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By committee of interested people |
| Aim
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Promote cohesion, support equality and encourage progress |
| Finances
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These take a more realistic approach to finances. However, their constituency is vulnerable to invasion by Market-centred businesses. |
Kinship-centred bodies
e.g. utopian communes
Details
| Control
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By charismatic founders |
| Aim
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Recreate the unity and spirit of the family in everyday life and work |
| Finances
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These are usually run along egalitarian socialist lines with key decisions made centrally.
Unless deliberately profit-making, the commune soon dissolves. |
Perspective-centred bodies
e.g. think-tanks, commissions of inquiry, research institutes.
Details
| Control
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By administrators |
| Aim
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Enable free- and wide-ranging investigation and scholarship |
| Finances
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Typically supported by government or philanthropic grant. |
Reality-centred bodies,
e.g. self-help groups or task groups.
Details
| Control
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By natural leaders |
| Aim
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Achieve something specific |
| Finances
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Work is either willing and self-financed, or financed within or by some other type of body. |
Originally posted: July 2009
