The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition

CHAPTER SIXETHICAL NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT: Core Values and Key Practices

Thomas H. Jeavons

Since the 1980s, scandals in the nonprofit sector and the corporate world have given rise to heightened concerns about ethics, accountability, and public trust for all types of organizations. Charitable organizations and those who run them have behaved badly on occasion before, but they have probably never received such intense public scrutiny as over the last half-century. Now, in an era of 24-hour news networks, Internet news feeds, and social media, even small missteps can become major public relations nightmares. Moreover, the public's readiness to believe the worst about institutions in all three sectors has been reinforced by the pervasive evidence ...