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The Generative Governance: Cathy Trower's New Paradigm

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The generative governance

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The practitioner guide to governance as leadership by Cathy Trower introduced a new paradigm for nonprofit boards. This new paradigm is focused on three modes of governance with the third, the generative governance, precipitously becoming the new model of a topnotch to improve board process, board outcomes and board member engagement. To engage in generative governance, according to Trower demands that "the board generates insight and understanding about a question, problem, challenge, opportunity, or the environment; and a sense of the organization's identity in order to most effectively respond to the problem or environment or seize the opportunity that best reflects what the organization is, how it …show more content…

In addition, it is the source of leadership to discern, frame, and confront challenges rooted in values, traditions, and beliefs; engage in sense-making, meaning-making, and problem framing (Trower, p. 13). Furthermore, it is a way for a board to examine an issue or an idea by generating more information about it: identifying the problem instead of solving it; generating questions instead of answers and making sense before making any decisions. In a similar manner, generative governance allows you to diagnose the situation correctly so that you can then treat it …show more content…

A board functioning at the generative level will ask, "Why do significant numbers of people engage in the unpaid activities known as volunteerism? And what are volunteers looking for in their involvement with nonprofit organizations? In "The motivations to volunteer" written by Clary, E. Gil & Mark Snyder, the authors applied functionalist theory to the question of the motivations underlying volunteerism, and hypothesized six functions potentially served by volunteerism, and designed an instrument to assess these functions known as the "Volunteer Functions Inventory" (Gil & Snyder, p. 156). According to them, the reason for volunteering is underlined by functional philosophies such as values, understanding, enhancement, career, social, and protective functions potentially served by volunteering. Nevertheless, they argued that we must never lose sight of the fact that volunteers are not an interruption of our work, but rather our partners in accomplishing it. Apparently, they opposed the mandatory requirement of volunteerism as part of the curriculum of studies and disagrees that it will be counterproductive in the long run (Gil & Snyder, p.

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