Management of people in mission-driven organizations: Current state and future directions

Abstract

This chapter pulls together the messages of the book. In particular, we pull out four key lessons that seem to apply to all or most of the mission-driven organizations covered in the book: the need to optimize resources to as far as possible meet the often conflicting expectations of stakeholders; the need to find creative ways to attract and keep and motivate talent; the need to retain talent through the identification of, and as far as possible, the meeting of, their needs; and the need to cut red tape and address the requirements of change. We discuss the implications of the work here for future research and for managerial action.