ERIC ED116085: Help for Older Adult Organizations pdf

ERIC ED116085: Help for Older Adult Organizations

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As older adult organizations stretch to meet the needs of a growing older adult client population, these Senior Citizen Centers, clubs and other programs are increasingly unable to understand and contol their internal as well as external environments. Organizational Development, a body of applied behavioral science techniques, can help older adult organizations become more effective by providing ways of building shared understanding of strengths as well as limitations. Because of the high cost of traditional organizational development programs, the community college is depicted as an indirect provider of the services to older adult organizations. By training voluntary community resources to deliver organizational development services, by integrating this effort into other community programs, community colleges can draw upon their own valuable, specialized competence to serve the older adults of our communities. Moreover, by developing this indirect role, it is asserted that community colleges can pursue a direction consistent with their desire to serve older adult agencies without diverting college resources which may be vital to other worthwhile programs.

A model for the delivery of organizational development services through community colleges is described. (Author

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1975
• Year: 1975
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Community Coordination, Coordinators, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Models, Older Adults, Organizational Change, Organizational Development

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