A First Impression of the Carver's |
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Nipawin - September 19, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis | |
a model ...adopted by many of |
Last week end I was casually reading the booklet "YOUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES |
AS A BOARD MEMBER(1)" and I became dismayed at what Dr. John Carver and his wife | |
Miriam Carver were saying. Specifically, I am going to quote a passage of this booklet so that | |
we can have a feeling of outrage at their Policy Governance®(2)(3) model, a model which has | |
been adopted by many of our health agencies, school boards and non profit organizations. This | |
is the passage: | |
Hands Off!! |
"Hands Off!! Examples of What the Board Should Keep Hands Off |
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hold power |
The above passage is very troublesome and it is reflective of an elitist and bureaucratic |
leadership void of any creativity, beyond the interest to hold power at the expense of | |
everybody else. Now, we must know that many health district boards have adopted the | |
Policy Governance® model preached by the Carvers. | |
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cannot |
Can you believe that in accordance to the Policy Governance® model our health boards |
cannot establish services, cannot establish health programs, cannot establish curricula, | |
cannot establish budgets, cannot approve the CEO's personnel, cannot approve program, | |
cannot approve budgetary plans... health boards cannot decide on the table of organization | |
and staffing requirements! | |
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no say whatsoever |
The communities own the health districts, yet the communities have no say whatsoever in |
the running of their own health organizations; as usual, our specialists take care of the | |
health services: our CEOs, our health economists, Saskatchewan Health, and the Saskatchewan | |
Association of Health Organizations (SAHO). This is another magic of our reductionist | |
Premier Roy Romanow. | |
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health districts are puppets |
In our past articles we have been dealing with no-fault Tort reform and we have emphasized |
the need to restore our individual rights taken away from our governments; and now I find | |
out that the Policy Governance® of our health districts tell their CEOs that they are above | |
the law, that they are above the Health Districts Act and that they are above their own | |
districts' bylaws. No wonder that our health districts are puppets of this government and | |
no wonder that health care is a gambling casino. | |
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maintain the status quo |
This is not what Timothy's Shire has described in his article "Chaos Theory(4)", this is |
utter predetermined confusion caused by our corrupted leadership in their attempt to | |
maintain the status quo and exercise their greedy power. We must restore due diligence | |
and good faith to our governments, to our public agencies, to our schools, and to our | |
health districts. | |
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socially responsible |
We cannot continue to have no-fault governments along with their adopted Policy |
Governance® model. We don't need models anymore, we need examples of good | |
leadership, we need examples on how to be more creative and socially responsible, | |
we need examples on how to learn more and express ourselves, we need to have back | |
our own individual rights taken away from this government. | |
-----------References/Endnotes: | |
General Reference: economic and political articles written by Mario deSantis and published in Ensign http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantisNG.html | |
YOUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AS A BOARD MEMBER, Guide #2, page 13, by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996 | |
Dr. John Carver has been called the new guru of the Nonprofits. The wording Policy Governance® is a copyright of Dr. John Carver http://www.health.state.nd.us/gov/hotnews/leader/carvrbio.htm | |
Policy Governance® Defined: "John Carver's Policy Governance® model is the world's only complete, universal theory of governance... The model enables boards to ensure that organizations achieve board-stated goals and conduct themselves with probity..." http://www.carvergovernance.com/model.htm | |
Chaos Theory, by Timothy Shire, September 16, 2000 |