Non-Profit Organizations Promoting Societal Values

According to Denhardt and Catlaw (2015), Institutions promote societal values that have been defined and applied with a high degree of citizen involvement and with a high degree of responsiveness to the needs and interests of the citizenry. In contrast, organizations are concerned with how individuals can manage change processes to their own or to corporate advantage. The basis of the difference is that democratic institutions focus on freedom, justice, and equality (18). Non-profit organizations are still differentiated from institutions because they still are able to change processes or their mission according to their own will / the will of the Board of Directors. Whereas the work public institutions are mandated by law and through that mandate they meet the needs and interests of the citizenry. Therefore, institutions must be stable and enduring through time as they are the formal system for law making and enforcement. In regards to enforcement, institutions enforce the law as only they have the right to the legitimate use of force.
Furthermore, Boyne (2002) writes that complexity, permeability, instability, and absence of competitive pressures are additional characteristics of public institutions. Complexity due to the variety of stakeholders, each whom places demands and constrains. Permeability …show more content…
Furthermore, institutions are a part of the social contract of society and are determined by the culture and the values of the society. Democratic values focus on freedom, justice, and equality. Institutions can achieve these values through the law, court system, national defense, and social welfare programs. A breakdown of this system is known as a public-value failure, a term coined by Barry Bozeman, which describes a number of situations when institutions fail in their obligations to the