Enhancing NYANA Using a Team-Based Change Strategy


 

Publication Date: September 1998

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Patricia Sarah Padva

Research Area: Population and demographics

Keywords: Professionalism; Jewish Organizations; Immigration

Type: Report

Coverage: New York

Abstract:

To enable the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) to respond quickly to changes in the size of its client base or type of services required, it is implementing team-based organization. Using this strategy, the agency is moving from a hierarchical structure to a workforce that provides resettlement services through self-directed work teams. This article describes the management of resistance to this new initiative, TBO infrastructure and training, and support systems in this pilot TBO project.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.75 no.1, Fall 1998.