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Drucker Summarises The General Recruitment Methods Of The Not For Profit ...

Drucker summarises the general recruitment methods of the not for profit sector. He tells us that experienced volunteers are assigned to scan the newcomer (Drucker 2001, pp. 47) and that then senior staffinterview(s) the newcomers to assess their strengths and place them accordingly (Drucker 2001, pp. 47-48). He continues by saying that (v)olunteers may be assigned both a mentor and a supervisor with whom they work out their performance goalsthese advisors are two different people, as a rule, and both, ordinarily, volunteers themselves (Drucker 2001, pp. 48). This reliance on existing volunteers to recruit and train newcomers returns us to the earlier point regarding the pressures on the not for profit sector in ensuring they have a suitable number of people to be able to raise the finances required and that the majority of the monies raised are channelled to the cause itself. The question can be asked as to the amount of training the selectors receive and the criteria that they employ when making selection decisions.

The for profit sector, especially in a large business such as that being examined in this paper, would have a dedicated team working on recruitment and employing advanced recruitment methods such as psychometric testing in their process. Whilst they still have the pressures of achieving the bottom line, they are not subject to the scrutiny of outsiders as to how they reinvest their profit into the support areas. This subject received a large degree of publicity a few years ago when questions were raised regarding the percentage of a donation which actually went to the ‘deserving cause' and how much was spent on administration costs. In 2000, the BBC reported that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) spent a total of £38m on fundraising, administration and campaigning (and) £28m went on children's services (BBC 2000, page not given). Similarly, the Guardian newspaper in 2005 reported on a donkey charity who, from a total income of £111,665 spent less than $58,000 on the saving of donkeys (Guardian 2005).

The organisation, Charity Facts, suggests that no more than 15% of donations should be spent on administration, but also questions the professionalism of management where less than 5% is spent on administration (Charity Facts website).
The workers in both types of organisation show marked differences as well. The National Workplace Bullying Advice Line cites the NCVO's Survey of Job Roles and Salaries which found that there are around 130,000 charities and not-for-profit organisations using around 3 million unpaid workers (UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line b). They also found that off these, two thirds are female.


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