Abstract:
In a new funding context, some Australian organisations have made public
statements defining themselves in corporate terms and there is evidence that
this has shaped a new approach to executive recruitment. An analysis of job
advertisements over a three-year period (from March 2002 to May 2004)
shows that many non-profit community service organisations do not mention
their values or mission in recruitment advertising and instead emphasise a
corporate orientation. In these advertisements it is also made clear that they
require - and are willing to competitively reimburse - those that share this
corporate orientation. This alludes to significant cultural change within the
Australian non-profit community services sector and holds significant
implications not only for the direction of these organisations but for
community-worker job satisfaction. It is also likely to impact the relationship
between these non-profit organisations and the clients and communities they
serve.
