| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 92 === Nonprofit Organizations, abbreviated as NPO, have been developed vigorously throughout the world in recent years. On such issues as Environmental Protection, Aid to Minority Groups, Education & Culture, Health Caring, and Spiritual Purification, NPO no doubt has become one of the most important driving forces to promote social conscience and the society progressing. Most of the NPO neither have the so-called bottom line on financial profits nor have the market mechanism, plus the lack of proper managerial tools, which easily leads an inefficient result. NPO, like many for-profit organizations are facing many severe challenges from the rapid changes in environment. As Dr. Peter Drucker concluded, it is even more necessary for NPO to have a better managerial system than Profit Organization has (Drucker, 1990).
The Balanced Scorecard (abbreviated as BSC) has been implemented into big conglomerates, public sectors, and NPO in Europe and USA for many years, and proved to be a powerful integrating tool for strategic management and performance measurement system through many successful cases. BSC could help the organizations to focus the resources on strategy and execute the strategy properly to enhance the performance of the organizations. This research will design a BSC implementing model for a mid-size NPO, Taiwan Sunshine Welfare Foundation. The model will include strategy formation, planning, and executing. The findings from this research are as follows:
1. The strategic formation: Based on mission, the BSC SWOT and the strategic theories could be great tools for NPO to find out the best and workable strategies in the most important perspectives. These strategies will cover all the important stakeholders and a complete framework that is essential to success. Precise assumptions and logical argumentations characterize the nature of this strategy formation, which could support the clarification and review of strategies as well as the strategic learning.
2. The planning of strategies execution: The framework provided by BSC covers all the necessary elements and managing perspectives required for the successful execution of strategies. These strategic elements are connected each other with logical and cause-and effect relations, so they are easy to be verified, examined, and improved. Having been transferred to the daily activities of the employees, the strategies have great workability as well.
3. The application of BSC: Function-wise, the BSC complements with Activity-Based Costing, abbreviated as ABC, on the execution of strategies. While BSC establishes major execution framework, ABC provides accurate and in-time fundamental information from operation to verify the results of the strategies and improve the decision-making. The integration of these two tools could enhance Sunshine’s operational performance and the outcome of resources.
This research has attempted to design an application model for NPO to implement BSC, and expects to assist NPO in transferring the great ideas to a real success and compensate the long-existed weakness in NPO operation.
Key words: Nonprofit Organizations, Balanced Scorecard, operational performance, Activity-Based Costing
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