Accountable Leadership

A Resource Guide for Sustaining Legal, Financial, and Ethical Integrity in Today's Congregations

Paul Chaffee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

1997 | Revised and Updated
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7879-0364-0 (ISBN)

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In this work, the author offers congregation leaders, both clergy and laity, guidance and resource listings for such areas as establishing a shared vision, creating an effective governing board, being a responsible employer, stewardship and financial planning, minimizing legal exposure.

With reports of financial impropriety and clergy misconduct makingheadlines, accountable leadership and sound management practiceshave become priority concerns in congregations of every faith.Accountable Leadership speaks to congregation leaders, both clergyand laity, and to individuals who love the worshiping community andseek the tools that can enable everyone in it to better care forone another.

This is a practical compAndium of resources for creating andmanaging a sound, effective, and fair congregation. This newedition has been extensively revised and updated to includecontemporary topics such as disturbing trAnds in reduced giving,new church-state issues, clergy misconduct and troublesome members,and legal issues associated with the congregation's role asemployer and provider of pastoral counseling.

PAUL CHAFFEE, a minister in the United Church of Christ, is executive director of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.

One: Becoming an Accountable Leader
1. Courage and the Responsibilities of Leadership
2. What the Law Requires
3. The Role of the Governing Board
Two: Accountability, Administration, and the Shared Life of theCongregation
4. Developing Life-Support Systems for the Corporate Body
5. Responsible Financial Management
6. Employment Practices That Safeguard Communal Values
7. Contracting with Service Providers from Inside and Outside theCongregation
Three: TAnding to Invisible Wounds Within the Congregation
8. Zero Tolerance for Abusive Behavior
9. Preventing Clergy Misconduct
10. Healing the Wounded Congregation

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.1997
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	232 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-7879-0364-7 / 0787903647
ISBN-13	978-0-7879-0364-0 / 9780787903640
Zustand	Neuware