Abstract
This study treats the members in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as subjects, and explores the origination, planning, control, and completion of project management in NPOs, as well as the general performance of organizational efficacy, such as environmental satisfaction, organizational atmosphere, operational performance, job engagement, and work quality. It also probes into the relationship and effect. By various research methods, such as literature review and questionnaire survey, this study attempts to determine if project management in NPOs can significantly enhance organizational efficacy. This study finds that different NPOs have significant differences in the general performance of project management and organizational efficacy. When the performance of project management in NPOs is more significant, organizational efficacy is higher. Project management in NPOs has a significant path relationship to organizational efficacy; therefore, reinforcement of vocational training in the project management of NPOs could improve performance, which would have significant effect on enhancing organizational efficacy.
Highlights
1.1 Research motivesNonprofit Organizations (NPO) are organizations or groups that do not aim to make profits[1]
The operational patterns of NPOs are very similar to the operational processes of project management, and include the following project management characteristics: specific management objectives, extremely complicated and numerous uncertain task factors, cross-departmental or crossfield cooperation for tasks, funds and operational resources based on external donations, and stakeholders include industry, government, academic fields, research, and community, while they are numerous and have complicated demands, they value the social benefit of tasks instead of economic benefit [2, 12]
This study focuses on the on-the-job adult learners from different counties and cities around Taiwan who have participated NPO affairs in the Open University of Kaohsiung, where the sampling unit is the class, and adopts random sampling as the method of the questionnaire survey to explore their different personal background variables, such as gender, age, educational background, job title, organizational history, organizational scale, educational and training, general performance of project management business of the project initiation, project planning, project control, project closing in the NPO, as well as the general perceptions of the organizational effectiveness of organizational environment satisfaction, organizational climate, operational performance, job engagement, and job quality
Summary
Nonprofit Organizations (NPO) are organizations or groups that do not aim to make profits[1]. The principal objective is to support or cope with issues or events of concern by individuals or the public; the related fields are broad, including art, charity, education, politics, public policy, religion, academic, and environmental protection. They supplement the gap between social demand and governmental supply. How do NPO’s enhance organizational effectiveness and accomplish their role functions through effective project management performance? How do NPO’s enhance organizational effectiveness and accomplish their role functions through effective project management performance? This is the motive of this study
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