| Accountable Leadership: A Resource Guide for Sustaining Legal, Financial, and Ethical Integrity in Today's Congregations Revised Edition Contributor(s): Chaffee, Paul (Author), Chaffee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0787903647 ISBN-13: 9780787903640 Publisher: Jossey-Bass OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: A practical compAndium of resources for creating and managing a sound, effective, and fair congregation.Now more than ever, accountable leadership and sound management practices have become priority concerns in congregations of every faith. In this comprehensive resource, minister and manager Paul Chaffee offers congregation leaders, both clergy and laity, expert counsel on the most critical ethical, legal, and financial issues they are likely to face. He synthesizes in one volume the collected wisdom of hundreds of experts, identifies the central elements that add up to accountable leadership, and backs that up with hundreds of valuable resource listings -- books, periodicals, training programs, and agencies -- where leaders can find additional guidance on specific questions and concerns. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Church - Administration - Religion | Leadership - Business & Economics | Management - General |
| Dewey: 254 |
| LCCN: 96045857 |
| Series: Jossey-Bass Religion-In-Practice Series |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.32" (0.8 lbs) 258 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |