แนวคิดของการช่วยอำนวยความสะดวกให้กับธุรกิจท้องถิ่น โดยมองว่าเป็นวิธีการพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจด้วยการสร้างงานในชุมชนท้องถิ่น รวมไปถึงการศึกษาแนวคิดเรื่องความเต็มใจในการทำงานแบบเดียว/แบบกลุ่ม, การไม่บังคับ, การเชื่อมั่นในการพัฒนาตนเอง และความเชื่อมั่นต่อสายสัมพันธ์ของคนในท้องถิ่น โดยการนำหลักการ 'Trinity of Management' โดยมุ่งเน้นการอำนวยความสะดวกในปัจจัยที่สำคัญต่อความสำเร็จของธุรกิจท้องถิ่น ได้แก่ การผลิต/องค์กร, การบัญชีการเงิน และทักษะด้านการตลาด
Abstract:
In a rapidly globalizing economy, many communities are stranded in unemployment or work without meaning. This thesis asks the question: can local communities create economic development with fulfilling work? The experience of the author in African development projects is used to pose questions about modernist approaches to development. The alternative approaches to work and human development by Fritz Schumacher, Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers are melded with the political insight of Robert Putnam, to suggest that the answer to the above question can be positive. Their theories are distilled into an approach called Local Enterprise Facilitation, which is based on four principles: 1. Only work with individuals or communities that invite you. 2. Do not motivate individuals to do anything they do not wish to do. 3. Trust that they are naturally drawn towards self-improvement. 4. Have faith in community and the higher social needs that bond it together. The author's experience of twenty years in applying and developing this approach is traced from its origins in rural Western Australia, through other parts of Australia and New Zealand to its extensive application in North America. The experience has created a methodology for successful Local Enterprise Facilitation based around a community Board that can provide the necessary support for networks for new enterprises. In particular the methodology uses a 'Trinity of Management' approach whereby the separate skills of production/enterprise, financial accounting and marketing are facilitated as no individual can do more than one of these skills successfully. The Local Enterprise Facilitation philosophy has many implications and some of these are suggested in terms of planning, education, bureaucracy, and conservation. Whilst an evaluation of the businesses created can only be done in the long term, Local Enterprise Facilitation has opened up some hope for communities seeking to create good work.
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Local enterprise facilitation, Entrepreneurial empowerment
Related Keyword :
Community-based development, Economic sustainability, Personalized business support, Non-directive facilitation