The management of people in mission-driven organizations

Abstract

This chapter introduces the book. We outline what we mean by “mission-driven organizations” and identify their specific features. We outline what we mean by human resource management, noting that we take a broad view and that we include organizations that may be smaller and have no specific HRM professionals. We discuss the wider range of stakeholders typical in analyses of not-for-profit organizations and the importance of transparency and the importance of outcomes-outcomes that are not measured by financial profit and loss. Finally, we introduce each of the chapters in the book.