{"title":"Actions matter more than words: From leader hypocrisy to employee withdrawal","authors":"Arzu Ilsev, Pinar Bayhan Karapinar, Selin Metin Camgoz","doi":"10.1002/nml.21595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21595","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Leader hypocrisy refers to perceptions of a leader's word–deed misalignment. This study explores the mechanisms underlying the relationship between leader hypocrisy and psychological withdrawal as an indicator of nonprofit employees' disengagement from work. We propose that leader hypocrisy indirectly relates to employees' psychological withdrawal behaviors by influencing the quality of their relationships (leader‐member exchange [LMX]) with their leaders. Within this mechanism, we differentiate two routes that can lead followers' perceptions of leader hypocrisy to LMX: trust in the leader and negative emotions. Data were gathered from 182 employees working in a variety of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in two waves. The findings support the indirect effect of leader hypocrisy on psychological withdrawal through trust in the leader and LMX. However, the mediating effect of negative emotions was not supported as the direct path from negative emotions to LMX was not significant. By adding a direct path, the alternative model demonstrated that when employees perceive their leader as a hypocrite, negative emotions can directly create psychological withdrawal rather than influencing withdrawal through impairing relationship quality perceptions.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"2019 29","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of external evaluation on donations to nonprofit organizations: Evidence from Korea","authors":"Ye Ji Lee, Kiho Choi, Ji Seon Yoo","doi":"10.1002/nml.21594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21594","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines whether and to what extent each stage of evaluation by a nonprofit agency impacts donation revenue. We test the effects of the Korean evaluation agency's scoring, selection, and ratings disclosure stages on nonprofit organizations' future donations. Using a sample of Korean nonprofit organizations for 2017–2018, we find that the governance and financial performance scores constructed by the agency in the scoring stage are positively correlated with nonprofit organizations' future donations. We also find a positive correlation between selection by the agency during the selection stage and future donations to the selected organizations. Finally, we show that the star ratings disclosed by the agency in the ratings disclosure stage do not impact future donations because ratings are predicted by the governance and financial performance scores. Our results imply that the scoring and selection stages have strong positive signal effects on donors, whereas the ratings disclosure stage does not. These findings suggest that to help donors make decisions about resource contributions, external nonprofit agencies must primarily focus on improving the scoring methodology and selection criteria.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allison R. Russell, Michael Frisone, Peter Frumkin
{"title":"Layoffs during a pandemic: Results from an experiment on the management practices of nonprofit organizations and business firms","authors":"Allison R. Russell, Michael Frisone, Peter Frumkin","doi":"10.1002/nml.21593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21593","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Given the challenges of the COVID‐19 pandemic, both business and nonprofit organizations were forced to respond quickly with regard to organizational operations, resources, and workplace safety. The pandemic offers a unique context through which to examine how the public perceives organizational responses to unexpected crisis situations and whether they view them as socially responsible. Using a mixed experimental design, this study investigates the influence of organizational decision‐making during COVID‐19 on the public's perceptions of the organization. It also examines whether the type of organization—nonprofit or for‐profit—influences these perceptions and the willingness of participants to support the organization either by purchasing the product or donating to the organization.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"59 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unrestricted funding and nonprofit capacities: Developing a conceptual model","authors":"Pamala Wiepking, Arjen de Wit","doi":"10.1002/nml.21592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21592","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Unrestricted or flexible funding practices are increasingly popular among funders. There is initial empirical support for the assumption that fewer donor‐imposed restrictions on funding have positive outcomes for nonprofit capacities, including the ability to better deal with external shocks such as presented by the COVID‐19 crisis. However, academic literature on the consequences of donor‐imposed restrictions is scarce, scattered, and lacks an overarching theoretical basis. In this article, we theorize how unrestricted funding may relate to nonprofit capacities and consequently effectiveness. Our theoretical propositions are derived from a review of the academic and gray literature as well as a theory‐based analysis of 20 in‐depth interviews with grantees receiving multi‐year unrestricted funding as a substantial part of their funding portfolio. We propose a conceptual model that hypothesizes how unrestricted funding may affect seven different nonprofit capacities: (1) financial management; (2) operational capacity; (3) staff management; (4) adaptive capacity; (5) strategic planning; (6) mission orientation; and (7) innovation. This framework can function as a much‐needed starting point to support academics and nonprofit leaders to better understand how unrestricted funding relates to nonprofit capabilities and consequently nonprofit effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tom De Clerck, Leen Haerens, Geert Devos, Annick Willem
{"title":"A self‐determination theory perspective on how autonomy‐supportive and chaotic leadership relate to volunteers' need‐based experiences and turnover intentions: A variable‐centered and person‐centered approach","authors":"Tom De Clerck, Leen Haerens, Geert Devos, Annick Willem","doi":"10.1002/nml.21591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21591","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many nonprofit and voluntary organizations rely primarily on volunteers to deliver their services. However, they often struggle to retain their volunteers. Leadership within these organizations plays a pivotal role in addressing this issue. Therefore, this study adopted self‐determination theory as a guiding framework to investigate the role of leaders in volunteers' turnover intentions (i.e., intentions to leave the organization). Specifically, in a sample of 355 Flemish sports club volunteers, this study examined the associations between volunteers' perceptions of their leaders' autonomy‐supportive and chaotic style and their turnover intentions. Furthermore, it studied whether experiences of need satisfaction and need frustration could explain these relations. Structural equation modeling pointed toward the unique roles of a chaotic leadership style and experiences of need frustration in turnover intentions. Cluster analyses further confirmed that those volunteers who perceived their leaders as moderately to highly chaotic tend to report greater levels of need frustration and heightened turnover intentions. In addition, these analyses underscored the potential challenge faced by nonprofit leaders as they strive to maintain an autonomy‐supportive style without inadvertently slipping into chaotic behavior. This study lays the foundation for a new research agenda which prioritizes a systematic exploration of the relation between maladaptive leadership styles and dark side variables such as experiences of need frustration and turnover.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136078727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stronger together: Building nonprofit resilience through a network with a shared Mission and organizational humility","authors":"Haley M. Woznyj, Oscar J. Stewart, Tammy E. Beck","doi":"10.1002/nml.21590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21590","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Nonprofit organizations increasingly face surprising and disruptive shocks, beyond financial setbacks, that challenge an organization's operations, long‐term survival, and success. To continue to execute their mission, nonprofits must be resilient. Despite the importance of resilience in nonprofits, more research is needed to understand the factors that build organizational resilience and how leaders can help promote resilience. We conducted a qualitative case study, consisting of 23 interviews with organizational members and key partners, fieldwork, and archival information, of a documented resilient nonprofit organization. Our findings suggest that leaders can enhance resilience by gaining access to resources through collaboration, which is in line with previous theorizing. Our results add to previous research by providing a more nuanced understanding of how collaboration can facilitate resilience. Specifically, our findings suggest that resilience may be enhanced when organizational humility drives leaders to strategically constrain their network primarily to partners that share a common mission. Our research contributes predominantly to the organizational resilience literature, while offering more auxiliary contributions to the organizational humility literature. Further, our research offers practical guidance for how leaders of nonprofits can develop resilience in their organizations.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaobao Peng, Yuhui Chen, Rile Ge, Sihan Hou, Mengying Li
{"title":"How does entrepreneur core self‐evaluation affect entrepreneurial orientation in social enterprises? Evidence from China","authors":"Xiaobao Peng, Yuhui Chen, Rile Ge, Sihan Hou, Mengying Li","doi":"10.1002/nml.21587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21587","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the global trend of sustainable development, traditional nonprofit organizations are facing the challenge of economic value creation. Entrepreneurship offers a possibility for nonprofit organizations to survive with innovative business methods. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) reflects the degree of innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk‐taking in terms of organizational entrepreneurial behavior. Research on the mechanisms of EO formation in a social context is still in the exploratory stage. While a large number of studies have explored dimensional modifications to EO, it has yet to consider how EO in a social context is affected at the individual level. To address this gap, we explain the potential impact of social entrepreneurs’ core self‐evaluation (CSE) on EO from social cognitive theory using a sample of Chinese social enterprises. The findings suggest that CSE has a significant positive effect on EO. We also distinguish the partially mediating role played by the two approaches and avoidance motives. The findings also suggest that the high socioeconomic status of social entrepreneurs strengthens the relationship between CSE and EO, as well as the relationship between CSE and both motives. Our findings provide valuable insights into the decision‐making behavior of social enterprises for sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding nonprofit leader engagement and turnover: A story of job demands and resources","authors":"Benjamin J. Thomas","doi":"10.1002/nml.21588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21588","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Nonprofit groups deeply rely on their executives to fulfill a demanding, often isolated, role leading the group in carrying out its mission. Although much research has focused on the effects of these leaders and great investment has been made in developing a talent pool to fill nonprofit leadership needs, almost no research has explored the experiences of nonprofit executives themselves. For nonprofit boards and nonprofit leadership development programs, this is a serious deficit in understanding the factors that drive engagement or withdrawal from the job. This paper reports the results of a two‐phase mixed methods research study that applied the Job‐Demands Resources (JD‐R) Model to understanding the energizing and depleting elements of professional life as a nonprofit executive. Phase 1 featured in‐depth, firsthand interviews with nonprofit executives from a variety of groups. Phase 2 progressed the research with a quantitative analysis of survey responses from more than 100 active nonprofit leaders. The results of both studies reveal important insights to supportively motivate and retain these critical executives: (1) leaders fulfill very unique jobs, although the JD‐R model can provide an organizing framework for understanding their depleting demands and energizing resources; (2). Boards of Directors can act as a demand or a resource, and executives' (dis)satisfaction with their Boards importantly predicts turnover and burnout; (3) executives need more social support in doing a sometimes lonely job. Limitations and future directions for research are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135644129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casper Hendrik Claassen, Eric Bidet, Junki Kim, Yeanhee Choi
{"title":"How social enterprise executives perceive their relationship with the government in South Korea: Insights from a Q‐methodological study","authors":"Casper Hendrik Claassen, Eric Bidet, Junki Kim, Yeanhee Choi","doi":"10.1002/nml.21584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21584","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study utilizes Q‐methodology to assess the perspectives of 37 executives of government‐certified social enterprises in South Korea on their organization's relationship with the public sector in terms of the complementary‐supplementary‐adversarial conceptual frameworks of Toepler et al. and Young and the literature on co‐production. The perspectives of social enterprise executives that participate in co‐production arrangements represent an underexplored domain. Our findings contribute to the framework of Toepler et al. by empirically gauging the effects of, in particular, an enabling regulatory framework and public funding relative to the tensions represented by potentially excessive regulation. Although the focus on a single context limits the generalizability of the study, it provides insights on the nuances and complexities of public sector patronage while highlighting that such patronage is generally seen as being more complementary than adversarial. Our findings contribute to efforts to empirically gauge perceptions of co‐production arrangements.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135547876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of perceived innovation in non‐governmental organizations in Nepal","authors":"Dipendra KC","doi":"10.1002/nml.21589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21589","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines how NGO board effectiveness and characteristics influence perceptions of innovation in Nepalese NGOs. Surveys of 225 board members found board effectiveness in resource acquisition and monitoring strongly predicted higher innovation perceptions, aligning with theories on the primacy of oversight. However, strategic involvement, diversity, tenure, and organizational characteristics showed insignificant or negative relationships. The strong positive link between resource oversight and innovation highlights the universal importance of this governance role. However, strategic involvement's insignificance suggests it may play a different role in non‐Western contexts based on cultural perspectives. Longer tenure's negative association indicates longevity can stifle innovation, so turnover may better encourage adaptability. Size only weakly predicted innovation, implying other factors like effectiveness are more impactful. While cross‐sectional, the developing country context provides useful insights on optimizing resource acquisition and monitoring to enable innovation. The findings indicate oversight effectiveness and active governance matter more than structural characteristics for NGO innovation.","PeriodicalId":279046,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management and Leadership","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135829594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}