The Co-op/Self-help Management System
Channel: Co-oppundit
Date: 31/12/2020

This video explores the system of management necessary to run successful co-ops and all other types of self-help enterprises. The objective of the management system is to ensure that the enterprise achieves its purpose while optimising the use of all resources deployed. 
Although the process of management in all forms of enterprise is broadly the same, within self-help enterprises the key elements of the management system should be fundamentally different. Most professional managers are trained to operate only within commercial businesses and ordinarily they will have no credible understanding of the self-help model of enterprise, unless and until they are provided with the kind of training that prepares them for a management role in a self-help enterprise. Here the self-help system of management is defined.