| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 公共行政與政策學系 === 100 === The development of nonprofit organization is always influenced by environmental factors, such as political, economical and social-cultural factors. Nonprofit organizations realize that it’s not a permanent solution to rely on government grants and private donations. Therefore, nonprofit organizations engage in organizational change toward enterprisation in order to improve the self-employed income and achieve financial autonomy. Daan Sheltered Farm (DSH) is not only the first sheltered workshop operated with farm models, but also the first farm possessed the international certification of ISO9001. Daan is managed by New Taipei City Association of the Visually Impaired (AVI). Its earlier position tends to educational function like the characteristics of school, and then it gradually transits to economical function like the characteristics of workplace. In the future, it hopes to transform into a complex leisure farm. Accordingly, the process of the enterprisation could be observed evidently in this case.
Based on J. I. Porras’ approach of planned organizational change, supplemented by secondary data analysis, depth interviews, participant observation and in-depth interview to collect data, this study found four important points: first, the components of the organizational vision are mission of public interest, goal of independence and guideline of enterprisation. These three elements linked complementarily promote the development of enterprisation steadily; Second, the adjustments of hardware equipment and the content of work setting were incrementally to be more in line with the demands of the enterprisation, and provide a solid foundation to develop a leisure farm; Third, although the sheltered employee could meet the concrete task demands, they cannot perceive the implication of enterprisation, they also have a confused identity on employee of their own; Fourth, due to the reliance on Priority Procurement Law and project founds, the dependence on government still high even if the performance of Daan got a significant growth. Therefore, in order to move towards sustainable development, Daan enrich its capability by the grants of government at this stage.
Overall, the enterprisation of Daan got quite gains in many ways, but there is still spaces for improvement. Here are some recommendations, first, in order to promote its business and increase the autonomy, the position of Daan should be more specific and the marketing should be more active. Second, in terms of governments’ policy, the principle of “same pay for same work” should be more adapted to local condition, and the delivery time of grants should be punctual. Third, the case of Daan reminds us the leadership play an important role in the process of enterprisation. As the same time, the members’ mindset should take government grants healthily and strive for different resources aggressively. In the end, its purpose is to be a independent social enterprise.
There are few studies observing the enterprisation process of nonprofit organization based on organizational change approach. This study presents how to investigate enterprisation via organizational change approach. In addition to fulfill the vacancy in the academic, this easy demonstrates the organizational change approach do help us comprehend the practical process of enterprisation in depth, meanwhile, other nonprofit organizations could learn some lessons from the case of Daan. These are the contribution to the theory and practice of this study.
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