An offline community I am involved in is my alumni organization of my high school. All alumni donate money to the organization; thus, a lot of trust is invested in the board members in using this money. Board members could possibly launder the money and use it for vacations. Also, some board members could not be fulfilling their roles in planning alumni events and maintaining a strong relationships to the high school.
Because board members can misuse the donations received we have elections every year. Therefore, a reputation system must be used in order for alumni to judge canadites better. This system should be based on accomplishments of alumni heading/leading projects for the high school such as succesfully petitioning fir more federal funding for the high school. Accomplishments like these allow alumni to make better judgements when choosing board members. The accomplished alumni show leadership, ambition, and care for the organizations goals. These qualities help build bridges of trust between members. The alumni who exhibit these qualities through there accomplishments should be awarded during an award ceremony so that it is made known to everyone in the organization; thereby building a good reputation. When elections occur alumni well be aware of the better reputable alumni. This system could be manipulated because of the awards aspect of the system.
There could be favoritism between members which causes the alumni to select individuals who do not use the donations properly. Elected board members may not fulfill their duties in maintaining good relationships with the high school. Also, they may not plan events properly.
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An award ceremony would definitely demonstrate which board members have a good reputation. However, don't underestimate the effects of politics on who gets these awards.
ReplyDeleteWould it be possible for a board member to contract someone to get a task done, over pay then and get a cut of the money? I think it would be better, in terms of money, to enforce an audit system so that all money will need to be tracked and accounted for in documentation at the end of every fiscal year. To extend this if an outside company was in charge of auditing the activities this would help or if the spending was released to all alumni, this way people would get their reputation on the basis of how they use the money they are in charge of.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of having puiblic alumni award ceromonies definitely increases the member accountability and really publicizes(sp) the reputation building process and even allows those alumni who are not super-involved to make responsible/informed decisions when voting for alumni board members, etc...
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