8.1.3.1: Mature organisations will do anything to promote capacity building,
and will not acquiesce in accepting such a situation. Still it happens.
Reasons:
- When an unstable outside world causes the influx of work the urgence is
with coping, not with quality. Everybody is happy that somebody does the job.
Expertise is for the time being of minor importance.
- With stability returning the NGO will probably professionalise. The
organisation may present opportunities for training but the workers can take or
leave it. Nobody tells the benevolent activists who joined the NGO in darker
days that they do not meet today's standards of expertise.
- A somewhat hostile outside world causes a defensive internal orientation.
Such an attitude will strengthen the feeling of uniqueness leaving little room
for questioning qualifications of workers.
- Yet another reason is a possible monopoly of the NGO. Without competitors
the strive for quality will be absent.
Look at solution 2: from pioneer to professional.
Read organisations 3: the learning organisation.
Read management&leadership 3: a consulting style of leadership.