EDUC 522 Week 6: Holding Organizations Accountable
Organizations in all work sectors are held accountable for their performance. This unit applies accountability measures and approaches used for organizational accountability in the business, education, and health care sectors. In particular, this unit focuses on the process institutions use to assess organizational performance. Unit learning goals: When you finish this unit you will have learned to: 1. Establish goals and indicators to reflect various measures of performance in your workplace. 2. Create a balanced scorecard.
Question to answer before class as you complete your reading assignment: 1. How would you create a balanced scorecard for your organization? How would you create a diversity scorecard for your organization?
Class ppt. Baur, D., & Schmitz, H. P. (2012). Corporations and NGOs: When accountability leads to co-optation. Journal of Business Ethics, 106(1), 9-21. Bensimon, E. M., Hao, L., & Bustillos, L. T. (2007). Measuring the state of equity in higher education. In P. Gandara, G. Orfield, & C. Horn (Eds.), Leveraging promise and expanding opportunity in higher education. Albany: SUNY Press. Ebrahim, A. (2010). The many faces of nonprofit accountability. In D. O. Renz & associates (Eds.), The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership and management (pp. 101–123) (3rd ed.). San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons/Jossey-Bass Goldrick-Rab, S. (2010). Accountability for community colleges: Moving forward. In K. Carey & M. Schneider (Eds.), Accountability in American Higher Education (pp.273-293). New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan
