Board power and organizational effectiveness among human service agencies.
This study examines the importance of an externally powerful board of directors to the effectiveness (ability to attract scarce resources) of 46 human service agencies operating within the same community. Traditional assumptions regarding the importance of a powerful board were supported when effectiveness was operationalized using static measures of funding but were not supported when dynamic measures were used.
D004526:Efficiency; D005653:Fund Raising; D006075:Governing Board / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D012946:Social Welfare; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States; D014837:Voluntary Health Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*