The good governance role in the management and development of the NGOs in the Gaza Strip from the general director perspective

Other Title(s)

دور الحكم الصالح في إدارة و تنمية المؤسسات غير الحكومية في قطاع غزة من وجهة نظر مدير عام المؤسسة

Dissertant

Ghalayini, Ala M.

Thesis advisor

al-Farra, Majid Muhammad Abd al-Salam

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Commerce

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2007

English Abstract

Governance can be defined as the systems and processes concerned with ensuring the overall direction, supervision and accountability of an organization.

It is also a transparent decision-making process in which the leadership of a nonprofit organization, in an effective and accountable way, directs resources and exercises power on the basis of shared values.

This research studied the governance body in terms of its, structure and relationships to the management and development of Gaza's NGOs from General Director Perspective.

More specifically, the research studied the board of directors in terms of board membership, board management affairs, policies and procedures, performance management, meetings and committees, financial management and control, relationship with the funding organizations, relationship with the general director, relationship with the general assembly, and finally training needs required for the boards.

The main findings of the research were: • Gaza’s NGOs board of directors are well governed • The boards of directors are performing their role in financial management and control highly satisfactory (the highest overall 90.96 weighted mean) • Performance measurement is the least area that board of directs are concern about (the lowest overall 68.97 weighted mean) The main recommendations of the research were that Gaza NGOs need to concentrate their improvement efforts in the following areas in order to be more effective and successful: • Enforce the good practice of limiting the membership of the board to two consecutive terms • Establish a procedure to deal with board members who consistently fail to attend the board meetings without good and convincing reasons • Establish and implement a solid system of measuring and improving the board performance • Develop cods of ethics and conduct for both the NGO and the board of directors • Improve the effectiveness of the board committees • Play more active role in fundraising efforts for the organizations • Establish and implement yearly development plans to develop the board members.

Main Subjects

Business Administration

Topics

• Public administration
• Palestine
• Gaza Strip

No. of Pages

104

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-300229