Transformational Implementation Plan Case Study of King Khalid Foundation
Executive Summary
King Khalid Foundation (KKF) is the leading charitable organization in Saudi Arabia in regards to focusing on social as well as economic issues and development. Despite the fact that the organization has achieved undoubtedly success since its foundation in 2001 it has not operated without challenges. The organization is suffering from poor donations which are likely to affect its general sustainability and performance in the future. This report has focused on creating a transformational implementation plan for KFF. The identified issue in the company that needs to be transformed is based on improving its donation by stimulating its fundraising efforts. In that, the difference amid mere charitable organizations and a successful one that holds a sustainable future is based on the strategy that is being applied. The success of any charitable organization is fueled by both the rate of donation as well as the utilized leadership style and theory. In this case for the action plan to be implemented so that KKF can become the leader in facilitating socio-economic change, it has been proposed that situational leadership approach along with participative leading theory should be applied. This is because the company’s shareholders are the one that is primarily accountable for implementation success and should, therefore, be engaged in decision making. This report focused on ensuring that future sustainability of the organization is preserved while enhancing the organization’s vision on increasing the quality of individual’s lives through socio-economic changes and development support and funding.
Introduction
King Khalid Foundation (KKF) is the forerunning philanthropic institution that is objected at refining socio-economic development in Saudi Arabia. The foundation was labeled after the king who ruled the country amid 1975 and 1982 who was well recognized for his intense dedication to improving the life quality of the citizens (KKF, 2017). It is currently managed and controlled by the family members in his memory and appreciation. KKF utilizes its resources and expertise to create a desirable impact on the lives of the country’s public and operates collaboratively in partnership with distinct corporations in the provision of innovative solutions towards vital socio-economic issues in the state. In that, the organization offers individuals with substantial recognition and support required in strengthening the state’s social as well as economic status. This is achieved via its consistent funding of socio-economic development initiatives, provision of grants to nonprofit corporations, award organizations for their efforts and success in social responsibilities and focusing on organizational and individual capacity development.
The Foundation is existing and serving in Saudi Arabia. Actually, it is one of the biggest nonprofit organizations in Saudi Arabia and it has many successes. For this reason, the transformation plan that I am willing to create is to make the organization exist and serve in Michigan State. KKF goal is to help poor people and support them. Also, gives financial grants to other nonprofit organizations to achieve sustainability (KKF, 2017). Its vision is to be one of the best. Nonprofit organizations that can support and improve human and development work. On the hand, the organization’s mission is to have an optimistic impact on people lives and facing humanitarian and economic challenges. The objectives revolve around raising its financial earnings so that it can fully support its grant and development initiatives. The primary activities involve the provision of funds to the non-profit corporations, training and donating resources to the communities and individuals in need (KKF, 2017).
The vision of the organization based on this plan is to focus on social transformation to become the leading non-profit organization in offering support and improving the livelihood and development initiatives (KKF, 2017). The issue that needs to be transformed in the organization is to focus more on social change and to achieve this it should focus on attracting deeper funding to support its initiatives. Currently, there are very few nonprofit that can create initiatives to assist individuals who necessitate assistance and also offer financial provisions to distinct charitable organizations so that sustainability can be achieved. KKF values revolve around to be responsible, promoting respect, ethical dedication as well as honesty (KKF, 2017). Its strengths lie in having the largest sources of resources, sustainability, and leadership in the charitable industry. This has helped in building a positive image for the organization. However, poor financial support as its primary weakness seems to be affecting its performance in general. The organization as the opportunity of partnering with well-established companies so that it can strengthen its positioning and likelihood of improving its financial support. With the low number of the nonprofit organization focusing on socio-economic issues and development, it is rather apparent that the company will be faced with the issues of overload. With its poor donation weakness, it is apparent that it will fall for poor performances which will threaten its existence, reputation and the achievement of goals (Perry, 2010).
In this context, it is apparent that the organization should focus on transforming its fund acquisition strategies. Transformational planning can best be described as the general process of creating a strategic approach for the redesigning of the company’s operational process via changing the procedures, operation, focus, and policies so that the organization can from its current state to another (Perry, 2010). Transformational issues, in this case, are the vital problems that KKF faces that hinders its performance potential and might affect its future success and ventures. The issue of poor donation that is faced by the company is mainly rooted in its operations, culture, and perception towards funds acquisition. Since the issue is deeply rooted it can be challenging to solve it without planning for the transformation that is to occur.
The primary distinction amid a charitable organization that is involved in mere operations and another one that has a sustainable future is based on the strategy being used. It cannot be doubted that KFF is the largest and the most effective charitable organization in Saudi Arabia. It is highly engaged in socio-economic change and development and as its responsibilities increase its financial sources should also rise. However, with a poor donation, the sustainability of the organization is not guaranteed. For the organization to attract high and long-run funding’s especially from the prime donors, it needs to have a well-structured approach in place. In that individuals and companies that offer large donations to the nonprofit corporation are focused on effective future investments for the community and the corporation. Therefore if the future plan cannot be demonstrated appropriately in a well-organized and convincing manners then the donors are not likely to make huge and long-run investments (Perry, 2010).
The proposed action plan is based on gathering information on those that need assistance incorporation individuals and organizations (Perry, 2010). In this context, the organization should offer a detailed description of means through which the affected populace can be assisted in achieving independence and convince the donors to offer support. For the effectiveness of the action plan, those that are responsible are the stakeholders including the donors and the organization’s staffs. The organization should implement the proposed plan by stimulating its fundraising determinations and improving the utilized strategies. After the respective donors have been established and a positive image regarding the corporation has been built in the mind of the public the next and most essential step is endorsing fundraising efforts. It is usually quite simple, effective and highly essential to attract a high number of individual donors to the initiative. This can be achieved through the utilization of several strategies such as social media, internet, brand ambassadors and word of mouth promotions.
Building a nonprofit organization’s brand is usually challenging but is possible since KKF has already achieved it. However, the most challenging parts lie on trying to sustain the achieved development and initiatives due to the low donations that the company is facing. In this case, word of mouth is the most appropriate advertisement approach that the charitable organization can adopt since it is very common and highly effective in encouraging charitable fundraising operations. Also, the company can focus on utilizing the internet and social interactions sites such as Facebook so that a large number of individuals can be reached. The organization can focus on authoring articles and objective posts with enticing and compelling visuals of its operations so that potential donors can be attracted. These platforms are highly effective as the largest number of people can be reached within the shortest period. Well, known public figures particularly those that are associated with positive contributions towards socio-economic wellness can be hired as the organization’s ambassador which is helpful in attracting willing and rich donors.
This plan proposes that the vision of the organization is to become the leading charitable organization in supporting social-economic development and change. In this quest, it will be able to improve the lives of most individuals in the state as well as support other charitable organizations so that they can achieve sustainability and take part in tackling issues collaboratively in the future. This approach will seek to expand the focus of the organization and create even higher achievements by assisting in the rise of a more charitable organization that can augment social transformation and growth. The most appropriate leadership style in the case is the situational style and participative theory (Northouse, 2016). Situational leadership refers to the leading approach where the leader is required to adjust the managing style so that it can align with the level of development that the follows attempt to inspire. On the other hand, the theory of participative leadership is a style of organizational governs that calls for the contribution of all workers in creating all decisions in the company (Northouse, 2016).
Situational leadership is effective because it is an adaptive leading style that encourages leaders to consider the general concerns of the teams and encourage transformation. This strategy permits leaders to utilize the style that suits the needs and influences of the stakeholders and the existing situation (Northouse, 2016). In that, there is a need to adopt this approach since the organization is seeking to increase its fund's donations so that it can fully support it increasing initiatives in the future. Based on this approach in the previous decade's leaders acted as the sole decision makers but today the success of any organization can never be achieved by depending on positional authority. The stakeholders should be considered and consulted prior to the implementation of any form of change (Northouse, 2016). These approaches are both flexible and the charitable organization based on its situation which is characterized by high needs and low donation can utilize. In that KKF management style should be modified so that it can fit into the existing needs of more donations for the long run and sustainability. This paradigm needs the collaboration of every member and thus the stakeholders and the management should align their ideas and tensions.
Both situational style and participative leadership approaches are essential for ensuring the general success of the implementation of the proposed plan. This is because those that are responsible are the stakeholders and thus should be involved in the entire processes of making decisions (Northouse, 2016). This process is deemed as slower but for this charitable organization, it is the most effective one. In that, the stakeholders need to be consistently informed of all the changes that should take place in the company. In this case, these include the public, donors, and employees since they are the most vital stakeholders in regard to KKF. The use of participative leadership will be useful in eliminating resistance, increasing acceptance, morale, innovativeness and encouraging high performance. In that participative leadership is responsible for encouraging acceptance since the employees will willingly accept the developed policies as well as decision that are developed with the participation of everyone. In that, this can encourage the donors to participate more and avoid resistance that most of the fresh ideas and plans are likely to experience. Employees and donors can be offered a more special stake in regard to the whole success of the charitable organization by getting involved in the general procedures for developing and approving the policies that assist in easy adjustment (Northouse, 2016).
In addition, morale can also be increased since by engaging the stakeholders this can offer them with the voice in regard to operations by making them acquire the personal success liability and pressuring them to achieve higher. The stakeholder's morale should at all times remain high since the appreciation normally results in increased performance (Northouse, 2016). In this context, they are likely to acquire more objective roles in enhancing the operating condition when they understand that the policies regarding governing can be altered at their comfort (Northouse, 2016). This, in turn, triggers creativity and more improved strategies for supporting social as well as economic changes which are the primary focus of the company. In other words, the participative style provides stakeholders with more than just the setting to improve their contributions and the performance of the organizations. Investors look for organizations that can enhance their image and with this style, they are likely to feel included (Northouse, 2016). This also permits employees to take the active role in regard to development thus encouraging them to maintain their role which will, in turn, lead to success. In that, the retention role is increased while financial stability is enhanced with minimal expenses and turnover.
It is proposed that KKF should utilize hierarchal organizational structure. The hierarchal organization is one that follows the pyramid organization. In that, all the workers in the organization in exception of the CEO reports to another individual. This organization was selected based on its multiple layers that work to ensure that tasks are thoroughly completed as designed. The descending of positions is from the topmost positions up to the least one where reporting and operations are designed based on the existing departments. The structure is advantages in instilling and promoting change within the entire organization since power and the responsibilities of every member are positively outlined (Kelly Group, 2011). This also has several opportunities via which the staffs can achieve promotion and this normally motivates them towards better performance. The hierarchical structure usually encourages skills as well as knowledge increase in every member and might result in high focus. When staffs become consistently loyal to their operations this leads to higher achievements. This structure will be essential in promoting change in general because it is easier to encourage the staffs to focus on high performance and promoting of funds acquisitions efforts in general (Northouse, 2016).
The implementation plan cost is rather minimal because it does not entail the acquisition of resources but the formulation and the application of more strategic approaches that can attract high investments and donors. In order to gather information in regard to the needs of the affected persons and the interventions that can be applied a total of about 1000 dollars will be needed to care for survey and transport expenses. Some of the infrastructures that will be required ranges from computers, communication devices and bills, rewards and the development of a system that identifies the number of inquiries that are made within the organization and the most registered issues (Perry, 2010). Each department in the organization will play a role in the success of this initiative at the end in ensuring that success is guaranteed. The organization will mainly focus on acquiring donations on the needed resources and materials such as computers from the well-established companies in the region. Feedbacks will be acquired through direct reporting to the supervisors who will be allocated to different teams based on the roles that they play. Diversity management is comprised of five distinct elements (Perry, 2010). To begin with, thorough training should be conducted after an assessment in order to develop a solid strategy for governance. In addition, a focused leadership that offers the needed directions is also a required with specific goals. The achievements should be evaluated periodically to establish the progress (Perry, 2010).
Conclusion
It is apparent that KKF has achieved undoubtedly achievements in promoting socio-economic growth in Saudi Arabia. However, despite being the leading charitable organization it is faced with the issue of poor donation which is bound to affect sustainability and performance. There is a need to focus the organization's attention on promoting higher and long run donations in general. The identified issue in the company that needs to be transformed is based on improving its donation by stimulating its fundraising efforts. In that, the difference amid mere charitable organizations and a successful one that holds a sustainable future is based on the strategy that is being applied. The success of any charitable organization is fueled by both the rate of donation as well as the utilized leadership style and theory. In this case for the action plan to be implemented so that KKF can become the leader in facilitating socio-economic change, it has been proposed that situational leadership approach along with participative leading theory should be applied.
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