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Culture and Human Resources Management: Selecting Leadership in a Nonprofit Organization

• Golden-Biddle, Karen
• Linduff, Harry A

Abstract

This article examines the influence of culture in a nonprofit organization on a major human resources management decision: the selection of a new leader. Specifically, this article investigates the recent selection of the national executive vice president (known as EVP, the highest-ranking, paid staff member) in the American Cancer Society and details how three particular aspects of the culture influenced the structure, process, and outcome of the selection decision.

Journal

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

(Spring 1994)
vol4 no3 pages301

Categories

1. Nonprofit Leadership  

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