The Salient Management Skills: A Conceptual Framework for a Curriculum for Managers in Nonprofit Organizations

Abstract

As the definition of public affairs and administration expands to encompass nonprofit organizations and as more university programs in public administration begin to develop curricula in nonprofit organization management, questions of what such curricula should include have become increasingly important. Based on a program of research on nonprofit management skills, the questions that have been raised about appropriate curricula are reviewed, the literature and research program that serve as foundations for the proposed approach to curriculum are described, four executive roles for nonprofit organizations and the implications of each for curriculum are specified, and four sets of behaviorally oriented skills are proposed as useful and appropriate components of nonprofit management curricula.